William Bibbiani

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IGN, The Film Verdict, TheWrap
For 587 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

William Bibbiani's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 I Saw the TV Glow
Lowest review score: 1 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 365 out of 587
  2. Mixed: 150 out of 587
  3. Negative: 72 out of 587
587 movie reviews
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 35 William Bibbiani
    Brahms: The Boy II
    The film has no suspense, wit or shock value. It’s too ploddingly paced to elicit a proper jump scare, and it’s nowhere near insightful enough to get under the skin. The only thing interesting about this disappointing follow-up is how it takes the original film down with it, retroactively hurting the chances of “The Boy” becoming a beloved cult classic.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 William Bibbiani
    Animal Farm
    The problem isn’t that the new 'Animal Farm' is unfaithful, it’s that the changes aren’t an improvement.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 55 William Bibbiani
    AfrAId
    If an algorithm recommends The Emoji Movie, Weitz’s film argues, there’s something very, very wrong with that algorithm — and there’s no denying that logic.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 49 William Bibbiani
    Winchester
    You won't lose yourself in this haunted house, even though that was supposed to be the whole point. A film about a labyrinth filled with ghosts quickly becomes methodical and familiar, stranding a great cast in an inert supernatural thriller.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 31 William Bibbiani
    The Strangers: Chapter 2
    The Strangers: Chapter 2' is an improvement on 'The Strangers: Chapter 1.' Then again, a moderate case of food poisoning is an improvement on a severe one.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 60 William Bibbiani
    Arctic Dogs
    Arctic Dogs is a functional, distracting kids flick that’s only remarkable in how unremarkable it is.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 79 William Bibbiani
    The Happytime Murders
    The Happytime Murders may not be a timeless classic on par with Roger Rabbit, but it’s more interesting and nuanced than its raunchy, violent humor suggests. The puppeteering is fantastic, the characters are interesting, and although the story isn’t ingenious the jokes are usually funny.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 William Bibbiani
    Flatliners
    Flatliners had every opportunity to improve on the original, and it doesn’t take most of them. It falls flat as a horror movie but the cast is good enough, and the sci-fi concepts are interesting enough, to keep it from crashing completely.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 37 William Bibbiani
    The Professor and the Madman
    What a superficial and tedious motion picture, never quite bad enough to be campy, never remotely good enough to justify watching it instead of reading the book’s Wikipedia page.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 William Bibbiani
    Borderlands
    All the edges have been sanded down so it can be safe and mainstream, but they went too far and there’s almost nothing left. It’s technically a movie based on 'Borderlands.' Not much else.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 William Bibbiani
    Hell Fest
    It’s in love with its location and couldn’t care less about the characters. Even the kills are rote disappointments, at least by slasher-enthusiast standards.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 22 William Bibbiani
    Psycho Killer
    Sadly, Psycho Killer wasn’t made with style in mind. Actually, it doesn’t seem to have anything on its mind."
    • 25 Metascore
    • 24 William Bibbiani
    Me Time
    The whole film feels like filler, an empty space waiting to be padded with plot points, characters and jokes that are so generic it was incredibly easy to transform them into product placement.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 41 William Bibbiani
    Holmes & Watson
    The lazy gags, wasted supporting cast and unfocused writing make the film an unfunny chore, which evokes but doesn't come close to their earlier comedic outings.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 39 William Bibbiani
    The Snowman
    The Snowman is a detective vs. serial killer thriller devoid of any thrills.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 9 William Bibbiani
    Bride Hard
    There’s an old expression that goes, 'If you can’t think of anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.' I propose we update that a little. 'If you can’t think of anything nice to say, you’re probably talking about Bride Hard.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 15 William Bibbiani
    Reagan
    Sean McNamara’s fawning and superficial biopic about the 40th president of the United States treats the political figure as a godlike messiah who was placed on this Earth to vanquish America’s enemies, foreign and domestic, and fall perfectly in love with the perfect woman while riding horses dramatically across the California hills.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 28 William Bibbiani
    Hellraiser: Judgment
    The imagery is creepy and the pacing is brisk, but the story is a faded carbon copy of other, better serial killer thrillers, and the new additions to the Hellraiser mythology rob the Cenobites of their deviant allure and otherworldly menace.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 35 William Bibbiani
    The Strangers: Chapter 3
    They just tried to do the same schtick, but longer and worse, and let’s face it, 'longer and worse' is only the goal if you’re trying to torture somebody.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 10 William Bibbiani
    Zero Contact
    It’s a film full of boring conversations, daft sci-fi conceits, and confusing suspense, which add up to practically nothing. “Zero” indeed.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 30 William Bibbiani
    Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey
    Setting aside the half-baked characters and a plot so raw it’s probably got salmonella, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey is staggeringly inept in surprisingly obvious ways.
    • 8 Metascore
    • 12 William Bibbiani
    The Haunting of Sharon Tate
    The Haunting of Sharon Tate is an astoundingly tasteless motion picture, perfunctorily produced and insensitively conceived...It’s far too early to call “Haunting” the worst movie of the year. But if it’s not, it’s going to be a rough 2019.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 1 William Bibbiani
    Melania
    Melania is the feature film version of that wedding video in Love Actually, the one where the best man spent the whole event obsessively filming the bride ... Ratner made a film that makes Ratner look more invested in Melania Trump than her husband, which is a really weird vibe to shoot for.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 48 William Bibbiani
    The Babysitter
    The Babysitter had potential but director McG treats this material like it’s one of the lamer American Pie sequels. The broadness of the humor detracts from the characters and the story and the horror, instead of complementing them.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 48 William Bibbiani
    Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer
    A film that could have been taken seriously as a drama — a politically one-sided but nonetheless competent drama — devolves into ghoulish sideshow grotesquery.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 15 William Bibbiani
    Next Level
    It’s got all the cinematic bravado of an expensive high school A/V project, and like a school project, it’s easy to root for the young people involved. They’re getting out there and they’re making a movie, dang it! Good for them! Not good for us, of course, but good for them.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 61 William Bibbiani
    Rescued by Ruby
    It’s a difficult world out there, so once in a while it sure is nice to just sit down with the family to watch a wholesome movie about a wholesome man, his wholesome dog, and their tireless, never-ending hunt for human corpses.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 72 William Bibbiani
    Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out
    While “Aliens Abducted My Parents” can be a little rote, its greatest function isn’t as a delivery system for drama, or humor, or even coming-of-age clichés. This is one of those movies about young people where, regardless of whether you like it or find it a little bland, you’re grateful that it introduced you to these cast members.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 68 William Bibbiani
    Meet Me Next Christmas
    Christina Milian and Devale Ellis are adorable. That’s the whole movie in a nutshell. Nothing else has to work in order to get what we need out of it. Pentatonix can’t even play themselves convincingly, at all, and it still doesn’t hurt this thing.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 William Bibbiani
    Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution
    An impressive and nearly-comprehensive overview that will probably have something to teach almost everyone in the audience, regardless of how familiar they already are with the topic.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 William Bibbiani
    Linda Perry: Let It Die Here
    Reminds those of us in similar situations that these painful paths are well traveled, and that the outward success we think might fill the holes in our souls usually turns out to be an excuse to push ourselves even harder. That’s why we cry sometimes when we’re lying in beds, just to get it all out, what’s in our heads.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 William Bibbiani
    Canary Black
    A cheeseburger on Amazon Prime’s value menu, but they left out the cheese. And the meat.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 86 William Bibbiani
    Lavender Men
    It’s a film with potent ideas, inner conflict, historical imagination, dramatic challenge, queer power, human fragility, humor, sex, pathos. It’s hard to pin down exactly what makes it great, and that’s what makes it great. There’s so much to its muchness that the veneer can hardly contain it, not unlike Taffeta themself.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 69 William Bibbiani
    Absolute Dominion
    It’s that rare action movie that succeeds because it’s challenging and intriguing, which is a nice way of saying that maybe it could have kicked slightly more ass.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 William Bibbiani
    In the Hand of Dante
    The film may be unbridled, unfettered and bold, but sometimes those adjectives aren’t complimentary.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 William Bibbiani
    Deathstalker
    It’s a playground for the filmmakers and audience alike, a fantastical space where anything can happen, whether it’s silly or badass or both.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 William Bibbiani
    Coyotes
    Colin Minihan knows how to make a gnarly horror film.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 69 William Bibbiani
    A Merry Little Ex-Mas
    Some movies are movies. Other movies are cocoa. A Merry Little Ex-Mas is the latter.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 64 William Bibbiani
    Not Without Hope
    Not Without Hope never completely comes together but when it works, it’s absorbing disaster filmmaking."
    • tbd Metascore
    • 49 William Bibbiani
    Labyrinth
    It scrolls past thoughtful ideas, too quickly to fully process them, and the experience is as cacophonous as the typical social media feed. I’ll grant you it’s thematically appropriate but it’s not cohesive filmmaking.
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