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...
The Absolute Hell of Watching a Movie at the Alamo Drafthouse in 2026
Once America's most promising movie theater chain, the Alamo Drafthouse has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification.
indiewire.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 thea24book@gmail.com thanks!
a woman with a bow in her hair makes a face
ALT: a woman with a bow in her hair makes a face
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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...
Donate to Help Support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!, organized by David Ehrlich
Hi, my name is David, I'm a film critic, and every year I cut togethe… David Ehrlich needs your support for Help Support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
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david ehrlich@davidehrlich.bsky.social · 7mo agoTHE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183
Only a little more than $5,000 to go! Please consider donating if you haven’t already!
david ehrlich@davidehrlich.bsky.social · 7mo agoif you enjoy these videos & would like me to make another one at some point (or even if you don't care about them at all & just want to support an incredibly urgent cause), please consider donating to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...
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...
Donate to Help Support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!, organized by David Ehrlich
Hi, my name is David, I'm a film critic, and every year I cut togethe… David Ehrlich needs your support for Help Support the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
gofundme.com
david ehrlich@davidehrlich.bsky.social · 7mo agoif you enjoy these videos & would like me to make another one at some point (or even if you don't care about them at all & just want to support an incredibly urgent cause), please consider donating to my fundraiser for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund! www.gofundme.com/f/david-ehrl...
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...
david ehrlich@davidehrlich.bsky.social · 7mo ago1/20/26
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...
david ehrlich@davidehrlich.bsky.social · 7mo ago1/20/26
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...
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...
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...
The 100 Best Movies of the 1970s
From "Alien" and "All that Jazz" to "World on a Wire" and "Zabriskie Point," these are the films that defined the '70s.
indiewire.com
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.
Richard Lawson@rilaws.bsky.social · 12mo agoArea Critic (Me) Needs New Job. Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!
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.
Richard Lawson@rilaws.bsky.social · 12mo agoArea Critic (Me) Needs New Job. Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!
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...
World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out
After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
wck.org
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...
‘Thunderbolts*’ Review: Marvel’s Best Movie in Years Struggles to Outrun the Emptiness of the Mega-Franchise It’s Trying So Hard to Save
Florence Pugh's performance anchors 'Thunderbolts,' a back-to-basics Marvel movie that tries to restore the focus on characters over spectacle.
indiewire.com
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...
Schindler's List with David Ehrlich
Our Early Spielberg series concludes with a movie that is a super fun time and not at all distressing to watch in our current political climate! David Ehrlich...
blankcheck.podcastpage.io
