About Will
Will Bjarnar is a writer, film critic, and Emmy Award-winning video editor based in New York City. Originally from Upstate New York, and thus a member of the Greater Western New York Film Critics Association and a long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan, Will first became interested in movies when he discovered IMDb at a young age; with its help, he became a voracious list maker, poster lover, and trailer consumer. He has since turned that passion into a professional pursuit, writing reviews, features, and interview pieces for the film and entertainment sites Next Best Picture, InSession Film, Geek Vibes Nation, and Screensphere, among other publications.
Before he became a full-time film nut, Will worked in the sports journalism space, writing for SB Nation, Fansided, and elsewhere about American football and basketball. He was a researcher for NBC Sports during the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing, and later became an Associate Producer at MLB Network. Now, he edits videos on a freelance (and fun!) basis; the later months of his year tend to be spent editing an annual video countdown of the year’s 25 best films.
You can find more of his musings on Twitter, Letterboxd, and other social media platforms on which he spends far less time than the aforementioned two. You can also contact him through this website’s contact page, or directly by email (wbjarnar31@gmail.com). Yes, this is him writing in the third person.
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'Sinners' Review: Ryan Coogler's Kinetic Return to Original Storytelling is a Genre Blend For the Ages
Director Ryan Cooler’s tour de force fifth feature is a kinetic, melodic, vampiric sea of wonders that features a remarkable debut by newcomer Miles Caton, and Michael B. Jordan in a chameleonic dual performance.
InSession Film
Movie Review (Rendezvous with French Cinema 2025): ‘Being Maria’ Showcases Anamaria Vartolomei’s Power, But Little Else
Synopsis: Maria Schneider, a young, struggling actress, lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.
InSession Film
Movie Review: ‘The Unbreakable Boy’ Is Cracked and Hollow
Synopsis: When Scott and Teresa LeRette learn that their son Austin is both autistic and has brittle bone disease, they initially worry for their son’s future. But with Scott’s growing faith and Austin’s incredible spirit, they become ‘unbreakable’, finding joy, gratitude, and courage even in the most trying times.
Geek Vibes Nation
‘Ash’ Review: Flying Lotus’ Twisted ‘Alien’ Riff Is More Experience Than Movie, And That’s A Good Thing
Movie trailers have gone overboard, but we knew that already. From twists that should have been left for the film itself to reveal to the many slowed, warped remixes of Radiohead and Starship tunes to dramatize the events we see in snippets, they’ve slowly evolved from short sales pitches featuring deep voices teasing that something major was coming “this summer” to musically-inclined reels for celebrity face cards and “funny” one-liners that garner nary a giggle.
Geek Vibes Nation
“It’s An Act of Genuine Hope, the Offering of This Cautionary Tale” – Joshua Oppenheimer On ‘The End’
In “East Coker,” the second poem in his “Four Quartets” collection, T.S. Eliot writes that there is, “at best, only a limited value in the knowledge derived from experience.” It’s a curious notion, one that critics suggest exposes a connection between salvation and personal annihilation. Eliot himself argued that the knowledge we’ve gained from our experiences reveals a pattern, one that is new in each moment, every moment being “a new and shocking valuation of all we have been. We are only undeceived of that which, deceiving, could no longer harm.”