David Ehrlich

Uh, it is just n- incomparable.

incomparable.Yeah, there's a, um, [chuckles] on Letterboxd, uh, David Ehrlich, his, like, one-liner review for Being the Ricardos is, "At this point I'm gonna need a new keyboard because of all the blood I have on my hands for liking Molly's Game."

[laughs] Yeah, I did see he, he had a positive, uh, review when I was, I was browsing through to look for stuff.

Uh, I liked...

And everybody involved had seen it and realized, uh,

I'm David Ehrlich I can't really answer this question because I think all movies are bad but if we are going to do the inside baseball thing of junkets that we went to of movies that we already knew were bad I definitely went to the junket of Spike Lee's Old Boy one of the only junkets I've ever been to Oh, boy.

Where I interviewed the old boy, Katie.

Oh, yeah.

I believe David has opinions on this as well.

But it's going to be on Prime Video very soon.

And when I finally watched it, one of the few reviews I could find on Letterboxd was from David Ehrlich.

Who, like me, thought this movie was pretty good.

Possible love is all about that.

David, do you want to do yours?

Yeah, I mean, I've talked a lot about this one already, so I won't go in depth, but it is The Unknown by Arthur Harari.

The prompt is, what's a film you can't shake for good or bad? I will say I can't shake it for good.

And I just thought there was something so flat and straightforward about the way the and maybe even directed and at the same time if you think of each like interlude or scene there's like the strangely exaggerated quality so yeah

i think yeah i think it would have been better had it leaned more into the comedy but i i mean yeah i think that it is it is like the characters are just these kind of archetypes bad guy good guy pure guy who can't lie guy who only lies

I did my friend David Ehrlich, I believe, in his either.

I actually don't know if he said this in his review.

I have memories of seeing Hereditary for the first time that I will get into, but I'm just kinda antsy to introduce our special guest today.

We have David Ehrlich.

He is the head film critic of IndieWire.

He is the director of the best year-end video wrap-ups.

[laughs] Well, your monocle days will come soon enough.

Mm.

You'll be published author David Ehrlich.

And I remember the first time I read one of your reviews, and I was like, "Who the fuck is that? They're so good." Wow.

But Gilroy endows that process with an unforced sense of discovery.

David Ehrlich.

As always, speaking his

prose there.

The critical reaction as well, I'll just paraphrase a few people here.

Um, David Ehrlich called it, "A mega budget Dr. Strangelove riff so detached from reality that its most believable character is an animatronic one-eyed cat." Uh, in The Globe they said, uh, they found it, "Loud, ugly, and blind to its own flaws." Uh, Stephanie Zacharek in, in Time said, "It spends its run time selling the audience on its own genius." Uh, and there's another website which likened Cruise's look to Colonel Sanders.

Fair to say it's not been a good weekend for Digger.

So this is probably most comparable to another Warner's release, Joker: Folie à Deux.

It's all very effortful.

David Ehrlich had a funny thing that somebody pointed me to that he wrote, I guess it's in his IndieWire review, but he also had it on Letterboxd, where it's like, that Tom Cruise and In Yard 2 are both in their, and this is not a term he used, but basically they're stunt queens, right? And so of course they're working together.

And of course they're doing this movie that's too much everything, you know?

Yeah.