David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein Film Quarterly Mar 3, 2025 The sixties framework simply drives the irony home all the harder. Go to Full Review Shampoo (1975) 75% 53%

David Ehrenstein Chicago Reader May 11, 2022 4/4 The problem isn’t with School Daze; the problem is with a white culture that cannot deal with the spectacle of blacks on-screen on their own terms. Go to Full Review School Daze (1988) 58% 79%

David Ehrenstein The Advocate Apr 5, 2022 Haynes demonstrates an understanding of Genet’s centrality to gay culture while suggesting ways that Genet’s works can be used as a tool for exploring personal and political awareness. Go to Full Review Poison (1991) 80% 68%

David Ehrenstein IndieWire Sep 23, 2021 C "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain" isn't even half over by the time its margins start to grow soggy with sadness. Go to Full Review The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) 68% 71%

David Ehrenstein The Advocate Jul 27, 2021 The whole film -- redolent with pop-and op-art imagery -- suggests nothing less than an Arthur Freed musical on acid. Go to Full Review Modesty Blaise (1966) 50% 34%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Feb 14, 2020 To put it another way, Bill Cunningham is a sort of secular Saint... Go to Full Review The Times of Bill Cunningham (2018) 80% 82%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Feb 10, 2020 It's not a pretty picture, but it's a true one, ad same-sex couples who've "been there" are sure to be thankful for Vita and Virgina as much as the Bloomsbury adepts who'll be certain to flock to it. Go to Full Review Vita & Virginia (2018) 41% 55%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Feb 10, 2020 Zellweger's womanlike skill is strikingly admirable but the passion of Judy Garland just didn't zing the strings of my heart. Go to Full Review Judy (2019) 82% 85%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Feb 10, 2020 Outside of Adolf Eichmann's trial, I daresay nothing this individually monstrous has been seen on screen before. Go to Full Review Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019) 87% 77%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Feb 10, 2020 Hynes delivers the bad news with added assurance that consciousness and comprehension are the best disinfectants of them all. Go to Full Review Dark Waters (2019) 89% 95%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Nov 30, 2018 That this hapless, incoherent mess brings down the curtain on a fabled filmmaker's career when it was expected to cap it is lamentable, but not entirely unpredictable. Go to Full Review The Other Side of the Wind (2018) 82% 58%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Oct 27, 2018 Melissa McCarthy's turn at the "serious" bat in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" is something quite special. Go to Full Review Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) 98% 81%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Feb 5, 2018 One of most moving and insightful films about the trans experience ever made. Go to Full Review Just Charlie (2017) 100% 78%

David Ehrenstein Gay City News Dec 27, 2017 That Daniel Day-Lewis, whose career was launched when he played a cheeky gay punk with a Pakistani boyfriend in "My Beautiful Laundrette," has elected to end his career with this closet caper is more than a tad depressing. Go to Full Review Phantom Thread (2017) 91% 71%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Dec 19, 2017 As a gay love story, told without judgment and without apology, it's something that would have seemed unthinkable not so very long ago - and that feels like progress. Go to Full Review Call Me by Your Name (2017) 95% 86%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Oct 24, 2017 ... "Handsome Devil" is a lively gay romance, even though it isn't all that romantic. Go to Full Review Handsome Devil (2016) 83% 78%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Oct 24, 2017 ... there's also no doubt that Sudhanshu Saria will have a great career if he can continue to make films as tender, insightful and surprising as this one. Go to Full Review Loev (2015) 86% 49%

David Ehrenstein Los Angeles Blade Oct 24, 2017 ... for those who warm to [director Jrȏme] Reybaud's cinematic rhythm will find "Four Days in France" to be one of the best gay films in years. Go to Full Review 4 Days in France (2016) 91% 42%

David Ehrenstein New Times Oct 3, 2017 Shot on High Definition video, this exceptionally well-made but exceedingly bleak peek at tinseltown would be unbearable were it not for the sympathetic performance of Danny Huston... Go to Full Review Ivans Xtc (2002) 77% 73%

David Ehrenstein New Times Oct 3, 2017 Though very well-acted, it's not the film it could have been. Go to Full Review Second Skin (1999) - - 67%