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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The History of Concrete: basically just an 100-minute episode of How to With John Wilson in which he ponders the impermanence of TV shows, rocks, and all living things. loved every minute of it. an obvious early #Sundance2026 standout. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

in the past week more than 400 people have cumulatively donated more than $23,500 to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund! it would be *amazing* to hit $26,000 by the time the video drops tomorrow 👀 www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

my video countdown of the 25 best films of 2025 will be up on tuesday 1/20. this year's fundraiser is for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, which provides medical & humanitarian care to kids in Gaza and beyond. please consider donating if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

we've raised almost $10,000 in the last 24 hours! let's keep it going! here's a bit more about what the Palestine Children's Relief Fund does: www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

on tuesday night i held several of the world's greatest filmmakers hostage for a 15-minute speech about what critics & artists owe to each other in the age of rapid enshittification. i'm not entirely sure why i did that. anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The Testament of Ann Lee: the Brutalist team returns for another, possibly even better historical epic about a European sailing to America & building a church, this one a quasi-musical starring Amanda Seyfried as Jesus 2.0. Often *transcendent* my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Ballad of a Small Player: Colin Farrell is dealt a bad hand in Edward Berger's dysfunctional Conclave follow-up, a wonky and exasperating Netflix thriller about a gambling addict in Macau. think Sam Mendes doing Uncut Gems. hard fold. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Hamnet obliterated me. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Deliver Me from Nowhere works as a spare character study of a depressed rock god on the cusp of superstardom, falls flat whenever it tries to flesh that out with biopic trappings. i'll take it over the Dylan one any day. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

No Other Choice: loved Park Chan-wook's bleakly hilarious capitalism satire about an unemployed guy who's so desperate for a job that he starts murdering the other candidates. a little Parasite, a little Looney Tunes, and then a big gut punch. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Cover-Up: Laura Poitras' damning new film clinically unpacks 50 years of American malfeasance, effectively connecting the dots between the My Lai massacre and the genocide in Gaza. one of the year's best docs. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Jay Kelly: very mixed on Noah Baumbach’s saddest but most sentimental movie, in which George Clooney turns out to be weirdly miscast as George Clooney. Sandler wasted. The last five minutes just about save the whole thing tho. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I’m writing a book about A24. it’s going to glimpse deeper inside the mind of Charles Swan III than anyone has ever glimpsed before. coming 2027ish from Norton/Liveright.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

truly cannot believe i just spent 4 hours and 1,700 words writing about this movie.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Mary Bronstein's surreal, hilarious & super harrowing "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" is easily the best movie i've seen at Sundance so far. come for a career-best Rose Byrne as an unraveling mom, stay for Conan O'Brien as her miserable therapist. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024 A video countdown vimeo.com/1046284152

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13. on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live: gofund.me/ae3c2b9f

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

realizing that Megalopolis might just miss my top 25 of the year

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

can't wait for people to really ~discover~ The Outrun. the kind of movie that lives in your bones and makes me wish i still had a tumblr. what a picture.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

this is like in the virgin suicides when no one can figure out how James Woods fathered all the Lisbon girls

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

my 5-year-old son decided that he *really* needed to watch Todd Solondz’s Happiness tonight for some reason, and then got really upset when I told him he couldn’t (and then after this video got even more upset cause I couldn’t stop laughing)

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

this feels like it's gonna be the best picture lineup. not terrible, but also some truly unprecedented potential for the academy to pick absolute dog shit over an obvious new american masterpiece.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I think The End is one of the best movies of 2024. I also think the shrimp socks that Michael Shannon wore to our Q&A last night are some of the best socks of 2024.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

it’s not a spaceship, it’s a time machine

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

every year a24 sends increasingly dark holiday gifts but the We Live in Timer is going to be really hard to top

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

11 months later and no scene this year got under my skin like this one.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

lol sure why not (these are good. the red one tastes just like Hereditary)

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

the most beautiful phrase in the english language

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

so close to being at the "fun" part of this self-inflicted stupidity but seemingly forever stuck at the "hair-pulling agony" part of this self-inflicted stupidity.

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

extremely large but honestly not bad

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

saw this on the street and immediately thought “prime blue sky content”

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

we should just keep Halloween decorations up permanently now

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Conclave is a very silly papal thriller less influenced by God than Agatha Christie (it's *absurd* to see people insinuate it into the Oscar race), but it's beautifully staged, plenty entertaining, and Stanley Tucci gets to wears a mitre hat. fun enough. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

(for Brazil) RaMell Ross' Nickel Boys is a staggering achievement. as radical, visionary & moving as any commercial American film this decade (low bar, but still), and a towering reminder of the heights that literary adaptations should aspire towards. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2023 a video countdown vimeo.com/900680873

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

hi bluesky! I’m so grateful to say that over the last three years, my video countdowns have raised more than $50,000 for food insecure families in Brooklyn, women in need of abortions in Texas, and families in need of legal support in New Orleans. This year…(see next post in lieu of threads i guess)

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

The Iron Claw is great and ripped my heart out of my body where it belongs. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

The Boy and the Heron was always going to be one of the biggest "don't fuck this up" english dubs in anime history. it also turned out to be one of the best. here's the inside story of how GKIDS, Robert Pattinson, and many more pulled it off in secret: www.indiewire.com/features/int...

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

“The peoples, they gots to go.”

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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

(the Ravonna buff basically makes this deck unbeatable in conquest if you’re patient.)

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