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Ari Aster is just asking questions, like "How the hell do we get off this thing?"
If that sounds like a lot of controversy to pack into a single film, well, that’s Aster’s intent. If something even more ...
Eddington gets the pandemic right but still isn’t a great movie
A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but in its early days as a distributor, it made most of its money from elevated ...
Most miserable movie I've seen in 2025? 'Eddington,' a COVID-19 fever dream
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.
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COVID-set 'Eddington' takes us back to a nation at a breaking point
Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on ...
Ari Aster, Hollywood’s Master of Dread, Is Afraid of Everything
When Ari Aster went to his friends’ homes for childhood sleepovers, his dread would escalate as the situation became clear: ...
Critics Have Seen Eddington, And They’re Saying Joaquin Phoenix And Pedro Pascal’s Neo-Western Has Been ‘Designed To Enrage Us’
Travis Hopsin of Punch Drunk Critics says the fear surrounding the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests ...
Review: Ari Aster's 'Eddington' with Joaquin Phoenix gleefully gores left and right sacred cows
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.
‘Eddington’ is a satire about our broken brains that might re-break your brain
Hereditary” and “Midsommar” director Ari Aster takes on contemporary America in “Eddington.” Joaquin Phoenix stars as a local ...