David Ehrlich

David Ehrlich is the Reviews Editor and Head Film Critic at IndieWire. Based in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, their two young children, and a crushing amount of anxiety that he treats with a steady diet of esoteric ice creams, British reality dating shows, and New York Rangers hockey games (which often have the unfortunate effect of making his anxiety so much worse). He is responsible for overseeing — and writing many of — the site’s movie reviews.

He has been on staff at IndieWire since 2016, and has contributed countless reviews, essays, and interviews over the years, in addition to spearheading several of the site’s larger-scale lists and projects (such as our "’80s Week Extravaganza"). His job regularly sees him traveling to Cannes, Sundance, Telluride, Toronto, and Venice, among other major Festivals. His job way more regularly sees him sitting at home and watching abject garbage so that you don’t have to. His favorite movies are mostly about impossible romances and/or bears in crisis.

Prior to working at IndieWire, David was a Staff Writer at Rolling Stone, the Associate Film Editor at Time Out New York, the Film Editor at Film.com, and an Editor-at-Large for Little White Lies. His writing has been featured in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Slate, and Reverse Shot among several other outlets, and he has served on juries and nominating committees for the Gothams, SXSW, and the Montclair Film Festival.

He is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Film Critics Society, and received the 2022 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Film Critic. He holds a bachelor’s degree in film studies from Columbia University, and later dropped out of Columbia’s MFA Directing program after realizing that watching movies is a lot easier than making them. Through partnerships with Garrett Bradley, Jane Campion, and Charlotte Wells, his "annual video essays counting down the 25 best films of the year" have raised more than $100,000 for various charities.