BOTTOM LINE An inventive satire about an infuriating cultural moment. Would you like to revisit the COVID-19 pandemic? I didn ...

Ari Aster’s "Eddington" stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone, but doesn’t really know what to do with them.

A sheriff, a mayor and a virus walk into a bar in Ari Aster’s bleak and brain-sick satire that stars a dueling Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.

A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but in its early days as a distributor, it made most of its money from elevated ...

Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on ...

Ari Aster's 'Eddington' uses COVID-19 as a jumping-off point. It's a painful, uncomfortable watch. With Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix.

Set in early 2020, the bleak, black comedy takes on COVID, masks, BLM, police violence, Antifa, white guilt, white grievance and the growth of toxic online influencers.

The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down the center of a road running through an empty Western town. He’s ranting ...

At 39, the American director is tapping into a vein of contemporary nihilism, where the grotesque and the outrageous overlap ...

Ari Aster’s darkly comic neo-western paranoid political thriller drops us back into early Covid, in small-town New Mexico, to explore the rupture of our collective brains and the breakdown of ...

Ari Aster’s movies, from “Hereditary” to “Midsommar,” traffic in trauma. And “Eddington” is dense with multiple levels that stoke the ever-present unease.

Ari Aster puts his signature bizarre touch on the spring of 2020, when pandemics, politics, posts and pings drove America around the bend.