david ehrlich

@davidehrlich

chief film critic @IndieWire. acquired taste. writing a book about A24 (Norton/Liveright). he/him.

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    Look Back: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s hyper-faithful manga/anime adaptation inevitably loses something in the switch to live-action, but it gains so much from it as well. gorgeously shot…

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    Look Back: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s hyper-faithful manga/anime adaptation inevitably…
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    Possible Love: Lee Chang-dong's first movie since Burning in 2018 is one of the best movies i've seen since Burning in 2018. Jeon Do-yeon absolutely IMMENSE in a sprawling drama a…

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    Possible Love: Lee Chang-dong's first movie since Burning in 2018 is one of the…
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    Making Marie Antoinette: like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, but Rip Torn is there. more than just a great making-of movie, Eleanor Coppola's doc is also a wonder…

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    Making Marie Antoinette: like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, b…
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    Elsinore: something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Andrew Scott is great, possibly, as actor Ian Charleson performing Hamlet as he dies of AIDS, but it's hard to tell in a mov…

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    A Long Winter: Andrew Haigh goes cold with an immaculately crafted 1950s drama about a young gay man whose mom goes missing in a storm. much too restrained for its own good, almos…

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    A Long Winter: Andrew Haigh goes cold with an immaculately crafted 1950s drama…
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    Tender Loving Care: supposedly Mike Leigh's final film, it unfolds with the directness of a closing statement. a very simple but infinitely humane drama about the limits of what l…

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    Tender Loving Care: supposedly Mike Leigh's final film, it unfolds with the dir…
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    it's a Possible Love and I'm walkin' with spiders. it's a Possible Love and I'm walkin' in.

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    Wild Horse Nine: Martin McDonagh goes to Easter Island for another sad & spiky tale of killers in purgatory, this one satirizing CIA interventionism. Malkovich is locked in an…

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    Wild Horse Nine: Martin McDonagh goes to Easter Island for another sad & sp…
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    it would be a funny bit if the pointless HBO Harry Potter series was perfectly identical to the books for seven seasons only for harry to just die a horrible death in the last epi…

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    @NYCMayor We were just informed that our daughter’s 3K program - in operation for years - can’t open for the school year because they’re still waiting for NY Public School contrac…

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    ever since we got to Italy my son has been asking me what Moana’s real name is and I’ve been like “it’s Moana” but he kept asking and asking and I was losing my mind but then he s…

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    ever since we got to Italy my son has been asking me what Moana’s real name is…
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    the best and most important new movie of the weekend is unquestionably Poh Si Teng's AMERICAN DOCTOR, a sobering but somehow hopeful documentary about three American Doctors who t…

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    the best and most important new movie of the weekend is unquestionably Poh Si T…
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    can't believe Marie Antoinette Fall is finally happening i've been waiting for times like these since 2006

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    can't believe Marie Antoinette Fall is finally happening i've been waiting for…
  14. #14

    THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown

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    THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown