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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024

A video countdown

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OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.
October 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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...
September 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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...
August 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hamnet obliterated me.

my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
August 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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...
August 30, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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...
August 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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...
August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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...
August 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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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.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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.
August 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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.
August 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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
May 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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.
April 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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.
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April 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
April 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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...
‘Sinners’ Review: Ryan Coogler’s Best Movie So Far Is a Bloody, Bluesy, and Throbbingly Fun Vampire Saga
Michael B. Jordan's twin performances lead a phenomenal cast in this story of some vampires laying siege to a juke joint in 'Sinners.' Review.
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April 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
i have never heard of this person.
It's @davidehrlich.bsky.social's 9-year (!!!!) anniversary at IndieWire. Disgustingly and confusingly, working with David is one of the great joys of my professional life. (Being his boss is also hilarious.)
a storm trooper is giving a thumbs up in front of a group of people .
ALT: a storm trooper is giving a thumbs up in front of a group of people .
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April 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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...
Marvel’s New ‘Thunderbolts*’ Trailer Proves the Future of Movies Belongs to Cinephiles — In Review
You're laughing? Marvel is desperately trying to look like A24 and you're laughing!?
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March 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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...
‘The Electric State’ Review: The Russo Brothers’ Joyless Netflix Mockbuster Is Only Compelling as an Argument for Letting the Movies Die
Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt star in a lifeless (and supposedly $320 million) adventure set in the aftermath of a war between humans and robots.
www.indiewire.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
i am happy!
March 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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.
March 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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.
March 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Flow!!! my son's favorite movie of all time. now he's going to grow up thinking the Oscars are fair and just. sad.
March 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM