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

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

still technically without proper distribution, No Other Land *finally* opens for a theatrical run at Film Forum today, and will play at various places across the country over the next few weeks. as urgent and devastating as ever. my review from last february: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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...

Severance should be a sunday night show. who do i talk to about this.

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

Movies are the best #filmsky @davidehrlich.bsky.social

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

we raised more than $22,000 yesterday, 46% of the goal!! that's insane. thank you so much to everyone who's donated so far! not sure what i can offer in the way of perks, but if you have any ideas for extra incentives, i'm all ears… www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

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

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

just had to watch Inside Out 2 for the 4th time Clockwork Orange-style and it's clear that Riley is a Connor McDavid-level talent. just ripping elite high schoolers apart as a pre-freshman, controlling the whole game… makes no sense she's worried about making the team. coach must be shitting herself

me for most of my life: “there’s no way I’m raising my kids with that Santa Claus shit” me to my 5-year-old son tonight: “you better go to bed *right now* cause Santa only gives presents to sleeping children.”

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