There was a psychological study that stated that people who habitually watched horror movies tended to bear up better during the isolation of the COVID lockdown, which might explain why I came through ...

In "Eddington," Ari Aster's unpleasant and explosive neo-western black comedy, the writer-director plunges viewers into a ...

Joaquin Phoenix appeared on David Letterman's show in character when he was filming a mockumentary titled I'm Still Here with Casey Affleck.

On the basis of his films Hereditary and Midsommer, it would be tempting to pigeonhole Ari Aster as a director of horror ...

Since the premiere of Ari Aster’s Eddington at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, the word I’ve constantly ...

The Oscar-winning 'Joker' actor discusses the western-noir dark comedy and why his search for inspiration was "an act of ...

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

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

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

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.

Phoenix recalled the 2009 interview during an appearance on Late Show With Stephen Colbert, explaining why he decided to appear in-character for the interview with Letterman for the mockumentary he ...

You might need to lie down for a bit after “Eddington.” Preferably in a dark room with no screens and no talking. “Eddington,” Ari Aster’s latest nightmare vision, is sure to divide (along which ...