I rarely deploy the term "banger." This? @davidehrlich.bsky.social's latest newsletter entry (and his glorious return after his book leave)? About the "absolute hell" of movie-going at the Drafthouse these days? This. This is a banger. www.indiewire.com/features/com...

* Do you have an A24 tattoo? * Have you spent $36 on hot dog finger gloves? * Did you cancel plans in order to hit a Marty Supreme pop-up? * Are you the actor Robert Pattinson? if you said yes/otherwise identify as an A24 fan, i would like to talk to you! please email [email protected] thanks!

everything sucks absolute shit right now (fuck ICE forever), but i am moved by & ENORMOUSLY grateful for all the righteous people who helped this silly video raise another $60,000 for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. there is so much good out there. www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

Only a little more than $5,000 to go! Please consider donating if you haven’t already!

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...

Less than $9,000 to go! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

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...

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...

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...

these videos have raised more than $180,000(!) for a variety of urgent causes over the last few years. this year i'm once again supporting the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, whose work is tragically as vital as ever. please consider giving if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

these videos have raised more than $180,000(!) for a variety of urgent causes over the last few years. this year i'm once again supporting the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, whose work is tragically as vital as ever. please consider giving if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...

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...

1/20/26

same, but exclusively on Gatorade zero.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

First out of the gate, the biggie: the 100 best movies of the 1970s. And, yes, @davidehrlich.bsky.social and I were arguing about number 1 on Slack until almost the very last moment. www.indiewire.com/lists/best-7...

Richard is one of the very best in the business and Vanity Fair has no meaningful future without people like him on their masthead. So fucking stupid. Stupid stupid world. Hope he gets hired somewhere that actually appreciates his talent.

To hell with this. Richard is one of our finest critics, and Vanity Fair and its readers are so much poorer for this incredibly stupid decision.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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.

Thunderbolts* is definitely the best Marvel movie in a minute, whatever that's worth, but this back-to-basics adventure still can't quite outrun the emptiness at the center of the MCU. Florence Pugh rules tho. my review*: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

no better way to spend easter / hitler's birthday than by listening to the 4-hour episode of @blankcheck.bsky.social i did on Schindler's List: blankcheck.podcastpage.io/episode/schi...

Sinners absolutely rips — my favorite Ryan Coogler movie so far, by far. see it BIG with a crowd, and uh, definitely stick around for the end credits… my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

i have never heard of this person.

The Alto Knights: woof. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

I wrote about “Absolute Cinema” aka the new Thunderbolts* trailer, and why it feels so inevitable that Marvel is trying to be A24: www.indiewire.com/features/com...

The Electric State: Whatever your expectations for a $320 million Russo brothers Netflix movie co-starring Chris Pratt, Millie Bobby Brown, and Woody Harrelson as the voice of an animatronic Mr. Peanut… lower them. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

i am happy!

NO OTHER LAND!!!! No Other Land now has more Oscars than it did distribution offers. a great and enduring shame upon the American film industry. free Palestine forever.

Anora is by far the best movie that actually has a chance of winning Best Picture and i couldn't be happier to see it clean up. the way the Oscars have transformed since they expanded their membership in 2016 is pretty incredible. Emilias Pérez still happen but what can you do.

Flow!!! my son's favorite movie of all time. now he's going to grow up thinking the Oscars are fair and just. sad.

showed my 5-year-old son the first half of Star Wars tonight. about 30 minutes in he turns to me and goes "oh, so *this* is a movie." Zootopia found dead in a ditch i guess. he then proceeded to ask me roughly 900 questions about Jawas.

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

Tonight! Call in and yell at me about dune or whatever!

i loved Mickey 17, the best, sweetest, and most rewarding of Bong Joon Ho's English-language movies (even though it's *extremely* Snowpiercer + Okja). my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

full Mickey 17 review Saturday but rest assured that bong joon ho is still very good at making movies

as Jean-Luc Godard famously once said: all you need to make a movie is a guy, a girl, and a gorge. my review of The Gorge: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

This coming Monday at 9 pm eastern we are doing a LIVE CALL-IN SHOW to celebrate our 500th episode. Go to our website on Monday for the link to watch, join us!! It will be wonderful chaos fightinginthewarroom.com

more like Captain America: BAD New World am i right www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

trying to calmly explain to my screaming 2-year-old what i meant when i said she was "going more ballistic than anyone since Ecks vs. Sever"

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work