Bilge Ebiri (born 1973) is a British-born American journalist and filmmaker. His first feature film, a comedy thriller entitled New Guy, was released in 2004.

Early life and education

Ebiri is of Turkish descent. Ebiri studied at Yale University, majoring in Film Studies, and graduated in 1995. His thesis film, Bad Neighborhood, won the Lamar Prize for Achievement in Film.

Career

After graduation, Ebiri worked as an assistant director for a Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov on The Barber of Siberia. In 2003 he wrote, directed and co-produced the low-budget feature film New Guy. It was released in 2004 and after getting positive reviews in The New York Times and Variety, had a successful theatrical run in New York City. Time Out called it "broadly predictable and increasingly one note, but passable sadistic fun." It was released on DVD in 2005 by Vanguard Cinema. He served as the lead critic at The Village Voice for two years beginning in 2016, before returning to New York magazine and Vulture as film critic and editor in September 2019.

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