William Bibbiani
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
My great movie sense is tingling. - TheWrap
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| Posted May 31, 2023
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Influencer (2023) |
If you want to see a really tightly constructed thriller with some really cool curveballs in it, this is excellent stuff. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted May 29, 2023
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The Wrath of Becky (2023) |
Intensely satisfying, really gory. It's great. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted May 29, 2023
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About My Father (2023) |
It made me smile, even though it didn't make me laugh. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted May 29, 2023
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The Boogeyman (2023) |
It doesn’t get into the meat of the protagonists’ troubled psychology so much as it gets into a series of PG-13 jump scares. - TheWrap
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| Posted May 25, 2023
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White Men Can't Jump (2023) |
A stripped down, conventional, mediocre version of a story that used to be anything but. - TheWrap
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| Posted May 19, 2023
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Fast X (2023) |
'F9' made a convincing case for letting this whole 'Fast and Furious' series finally end. But just when you thought it was okay to check out, 'Fast X' pulls you back in. - TheWrap
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) |
The success of Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 proves that it’s still possible for Marvel movies to hit and hit hard after more than 30 films, but also that it’s getting harder to pull that trick off. - TheWrap
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Inside (2023) |
When your movie is this simple, and the simple stuff is the stuff that doesn’t work, it’s really distracting. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Boston Strangler (2023) |
At home, you can kind of appreciate that, hey, this knockoff Zodiac has some good talent on it. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Wildflower (2022) |
A sweet yet straightforward coming of age drama. - TheWrap
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) |
The best parts of this new movie are drowned out by pointless CGI monsters and tedious action sequences. - TheWrap
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| Posted Mar 15, 2023
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Scream VI (2023) |
After six movies, it’s hard to give the latest Scream movie serious demerits for being rather good, instead of being amazing. It’s not a bad sequel, it’s just not an impactful one. - TheWrap
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Creed III (2023) |
This film’s ability to introduce new characters, recontextualize old ones, and even play with new genres is satisfying and electric. - TheWrap
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Of an Age (2022) |
Wonderfully mature and emotional and romantic. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Feb 20, 2023
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023) |
The film feels half-written, and the half we got wasn’t the good half. Characters and storylines pop up out of nowhere, disappear into the ether, and almost all of them turn out to be pointless. - TheWrap
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| Posted Feb 16, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
It’s a film with violence but no edge, just a disturbing idea which plays out to a grim and unsatisfying conclusion, unexplored and uninteresting. - TheWrap
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| Posted Feb 02, 2023
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Infinity Pool (2023) |
A Souplantation salad bar of half-developed plot points and superficial graphic imagery, in service of a theme that’s about as generic as anything you’d find in a mainstream studio film. - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 27, 2023
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The Amazing Maurice (2022) |
It’s a film that’s extraordinarily clever and proud of itself, even though it rarely manages to make that cleverness fun for the rest of us. - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 24, 2023
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My Animal (2023) |
There’s so much to love abut “My Animal” that it’s genuinely frustrating to find at the end that it leaves one rather cold. The style is impressive, the performances are superb, but this movie shows us its allegory and then kinda coasts on that. - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 23, 2023
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Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out (2023) |
For the most part, a collection of teen-movie and Sundance-Film-Festival clichés, but at least the collection is lovingly curated. - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 21, 2023
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The Devil Conspiracy (2022) |
Pure, unabashed, unapologetic nonsense. And I loved it. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Jan 16, 2023
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Skinamarink (2022) |
This movie is doing something very, very, very different, but it is completely frightening. It is genuinely terrifying. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Jan 16, 2023
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Sick (2022) |
A rote morality play with familiar set pieces and decent performances — performances which could have been great if the film had given the characters more, you know, character. - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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House Party (2023) |
If only the movie had been as sublimely odd and inspired as its comic centerpiece, then maybe it could have ranked among the upper echelon of “House Party” movies. Instead, the results feel more “partly” than “party.” - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 12, 2023
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Shin Ultraman (2022) |
There’s no winking self-awareness here, no digital recreation of costume seams or slightly visible wires, just an appreciation for the fact that the original series — colorful, imaginative, ambitious — had an aesthetic that worked in its own way. - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 11, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
Johnstone’s film captures the same alchemical blend of heart, humor and havoc you find only rarely, in crossover classics like 'Gremlins,' and it yields more entertainment than most would-be blockbusters. - TheWrap
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022) |
The best movie yet made about Edgar Allan Poe solving Edgar Allan Poe mysteries. - TheWrap
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| Posted Dec 22, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
When Cameron’s film calms down, and the stunning imagery that cinematographer Russell Carpenter has created with the film’s enormous visual-effects team can linger for a while, its imagination and scope can occasionally feel quite magical. - TheWrap
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) |
It’s hard to shake the notion that we’re watching a desperate fantasy, not the fun kind. Puss in Boots isn’t on a rousing adventure; he’s performing the fairy-tale equivalent of grasping at miracle cures while he’s dying from a terminal illness. - TheWrap
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| Posted Nov 28, 2022
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Devotion (2022) |
Whenever that camera is on Majors, whenever the planes soar through the deadly sky, and whenever that score crescendos, J.D. Dillard’s film comes pretty close to greatness. If only the rest of the movie didn’t get in the way. - TheWrap
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| Posted Nov 22, 2022
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The Menu (2022) |
Ralph Fiennes knows exactly what movie he’s in: a bleak comedy where he’s simultaneously the audience’s arbiter of vengeance against the worst of the 1% and also the clear-cut villain. - TheWrap
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| Posted Nov 17, 2022
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Something In The Dirt (2022) |
What it has in abundance is genuine sadness. Benson and Moorhead direct and shoot their film smartly, but their performances are what ground it and give it shape. - TheWrap
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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Black Adam (2022) |
It raises big ideas. Honestly, it would have been a really cool movie if they had done anything with them. [...] Instead they just take the path of least resistance. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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Noel Next Door (2022) |
It gives you what you want, it gives it to you in a slightly unexpected way. I can't expect too much more than that but it's never entirely superlative. If you like Hallmark rom-coms and especially if you like the Christmas variety, this is not a bad one. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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V/H/S/99 (2022) |
Two installments, especially "To Hell and Back," are among the series' best. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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Terror Train (2022) |
Too mediocre, even, to be mediocre. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Oct 25, 2022
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Voodoo Macbeth (2021) |
It’s attractively filmed and, mostly, solidly performed, taking some historical liberties but otherwise getting the gist of the tale out in the open for new generations to discover and appreciate. - TheWrap
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| Posted Oct 22, 2022
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Dark Glasses (2022) |
Welcome back, Dario Argento. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Oct 18, 2022
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Tár (2022) |
It is riveting and it is impeccably crafted. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Oct 18, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
Like watching a backdoor pilot episode for a “Tales of Haddonfield” anthology horror series, where scary things happen on October 31 but are only tangentially related to the original films. Not a bad pitch for a show, but not a very satisfying film. - TheWrap
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) |
Resists the urge to delve deeply into the mechanics of using modern technology to speak to ghosts; instead, it’s a rather depressing allegory for our innate refusal to give up things that are convenient but bad for us.
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| Posted Oct 06, 2022
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Hellraiser (2022) |
Compared to the straight-to-video sequels, Bruckner’s Hellraiser is a work of genius. Compared to the original theatrical releases, it’s just pretty darned good. - Consequence
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| Posted Oct 05, 2022
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Blonde (2022) |
Deeply unpleasant and cruel to watch... and to no meaningful end. - Critically Acclaimed Podcast
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| Posted Oct 04, 2022
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) |
One thing is abundantly clear: Smokey and the Bandit is still, and without much competition, cinema’s greatest beer run. And that movie managed to deliver a whole truckload of beer without doing any disservice to the Vietnam War. - Consequence
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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Smile (2022) |
What’s absolutely riveting about “Smile” is the way Finn consistently absorbs the audience in Rose’s foggy mindset. Her baggage is enough to fray her nerves and ours without any supernatural assistance. - TheWrap
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| Posted Sep 28, 2022
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The Munsters (2022) |
Zombie just seems to want to live in a peacefully eccentric world, where creatures can party down and suck some blood without having to worry about any of the normies bothering them. The appeal is understandable, but it doesn’t make for much of a movie. - TheWrap
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| Posted Sep 27, 2022
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) |
I guess not every bad movie has a cult following in its future. Some of them are just kinda bad. - Consequence
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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Goodnight Mommy (2022) |
Interested in the psychological underpinnings of the story but not in the terrifying ways they could play out, leaving the audience with uniformly excellent performances yet very little intensity and hardly any showmanship. - TheWrap
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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Butcher's Crossing (2022) |
A severely principled Western tale with clear, to the point of being obvious, points to make about the evils of plundering the land. The reasons are not limited to Manifest Destiny, capitalism and macho pride, but those are probably the big three. - TheWrap
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| Posted Sep 10, 2022
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