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David Ehrlich

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Violent Ends (2025) 76% C+ EDIT “This fatalistic revenge saga is so unrepentant towards its own movie-ness that its canned dialogue and clichéd story beats often present an engrossing counterpoint to its vividly authentic sense of time and place. ” – IndieWire Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Auction (2024) 90% B EDIT “It’s all good fun, but the movie’s core truth is decidedly unsmiling: If you agree to play the game, you have to abide by its rules.” – IndieWire Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Anniversary (2025) 68% C EDIT “Taut and well-acted as this queasy little thriller can be, its unflinching tale of corporate authoritarianism is much too streamlined to reflect the emotional truth of watching totalitarianism in motion. ” – IndieWire Oct 28, 2025 Full Review Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost (2025) 95% B EDIT “Retroactively gracious by way of self-excoriation, “Nothing Is Lost” offers all of the biographical detail and archival video you would ever hope to see from a project like this one...” – IndieWire Oct 24, 2025 Full Review The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (2025) 42% C- EDIT “A small and plainly shot movie that spends most of its time on Gaslighting 101, sublimates its true premise into the stuff of a late reveal, and whose only sequence of genre-forward suspense is a predictable snooze.” – IndieWire Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Köln 75 (2025) 85% B- EDIT “Even the most formulaic scenes in the film bop with the zest of history being lived first-hand, as if the script were happily oblivious to its own clichés.” – IndieWire Oct 18, 2025 Full Review Good News (2025) 100% C+ EDIT “Just droll, twisty, and stylish enough to forgive this 136-minute film for using a lot more runway than it needs to be airborne, "Good News" is a veritable caricature of middle-management.” – IndieWire Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Fuck My Son! (2025) 30% C- EDIT “While Rohal’s agenda required a certain amount of cheekiness to validate the fun of its own shock value, it’s hard to overlook the reality that “F--k My Son!” is far less disturbing than the movie promised by its title.” – IndieWire Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Winter of the Crow (2025) B EDIT “At a time when most budget-conscious period pieces are undone by the glossiness of modern digital formats, “Winter of the Crow” feels like nothing less than a small miracle of evocation. ” – IndieWire Oct 7, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% C+ EDIT “It’s a film whose only goal is to make “Tron” into a renewable resource in its own right... If nothing else, “Ares” might just be relevant, palatable, and undemanding enough to pull that off. ” – IndieWire Oct 7, 2025 Full Review V/H/S Halloween (2025) 92% C+ EDIT “All of the bits are diverting enough, and even the weakest among them boast spooktacular effects, but only one of them leverages Halloween into something creepier than empty calories. ” – IndieWire Oct 2, 2025 Full Review Gavagai (2025) B- EDIT “ “Gavagai” remains worthwhile because it constantly adds new dimensions to the question of who this -- or any -- film is “for” in a world where even the simplest gestures can be lost in translation, and every viewer is left to arrive at their own meaning.” – IndieWire Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Play Dirty (2025) 43% B- EDIT “While this isn’t quite the stuff of vintage Black, it’s close enough that I wouldn’t mind seeing him crank another one out every two years for the next decade. ” – IndieWire Sep 30, 2025 Full Review Dead of Winter (2025) 76% B- EDIT “Hardly a scene goes by where Thompson isn’t beaten, chased, and/or shot at in sub-zero temperatures, but you get the sense that all of the frostbite in the world couldn’t have stopped her from getting her own little taste of “Fargo.” ” – IndieWire Sep 24, 2025 Full Review HIM (2025) 30% C- EDIT ““Him” knows that it’s silly as hell, but it has no idea how to balance that against the ostensible seriousness of its social critique, which is how you wind up with leaden dialogue sandwiched between moments of broad satire.” – IndieWire Sep 19, 2025 Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 95% A EDIT “This $150 million rallying cry is the work of an artist and a father who’s determined to convince himself that getting older doesn’t have to be the same thing as giving up. ” – IndieWire Sep 17, 2025 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 97% B EDIT “Little Amélie and the Character of Rain isn’t a moment too short for its material, and yet its brevity allows it to maintain that delicate balance between joy and grief -- discovery and heartache -- from start to finish.” – IndieWire Sep 10, 2025 Full Review Eternity (2025) 87% C+ EDIT “The cast is game for the challenge, even if their best efforts aren’t quite enough to give “Eternity” the emotional undertow it needs to become more than a semi-charming thought exercise. ” – IndieWire Sep 9, 2025 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% B EDIT “I never would have guessed that the answer to Soderbergh’s listlessness might be an 86-year-old man, but Ian McKellen is so full of vim and vigor in “The Christophers” that he threatens to revitalize his director by osmosis. ” – IndieWire Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Sacrifice (2025) 39% B- EDIT “Gavras is taking aim at a culture more interested in telling a flattering story about itself than in making the world a better place, and “Sacrifice” -- to its credit -- is determined to engage with that disconnect on an elemental level.” – IndieWire Sep 8, 2025 Full Review Bad Apples (2025) 82% B- EDIT “Bad Apples may never be quite as sharp-tongued or audacious as its cast is clearly itching for it to be, but it’s satisfying all the same to watch the film bend further towards satire as it goes along.” – IndieWire Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 96% B- EDIT “This is a nice movie: the kind that’s lit brighter than a dentist’s office, scored by the lead singer of Sigur Rós, and aimed towards a heart-stirring conclusion about empathy, isolation, and the power that we all have to affect each other’s lives.” – IndieWire Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Erupcja (2025) 84% B EDIT “It lingers in spite of its lightness because it understands how the self-centeredness of travel can cut both ways. ” – IndieWire Sep 4, 2025 Full Review H Is for Hawk (2025) 82% C+ EDIT “The trouble here has less to do with verisimilitude than engagement; this story about the power and pratfalls of emotional projection simply doesn’t inspire enough feeling for us to see much of anything on either of its two blank screens. ” – IndieWire Sep 2, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 90% A- EDIT “In a sense, “The Testament of Ann Lee” is a celebration of -- and then in its less rhapsodic second half, a plea for -- the conditions required to make a movie like “The Testament of Ann Lee."” – IndieWire Sep 1, 2025 Full Review
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