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'Eddington' review: Ari Aster's inventive satire plays the pandemic for laughs
BOTTOM LINE An inventive satire about an infuriating cultural moment. Would you like to revisit the COVID-19 pandemic? I didn’t think so. If you’re like me, any work of fiction set in that wretched era — be it a movie,
If that sounds like a lot of controversy to pack into a single film, well, that’s Aster’s intent. If something even more ...
A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but in its early days as a distributor, it made most of its money from elevated ...
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 ...
Travis Hopsin of Punch Drunk Critics says the fear surrounding the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests ...
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.
When Ari Aster went to his friends’ homes for childhood sleepovers, his dread would escalate as the situation became clear: ...
Hereditary” and “Midsommar” director Ari Aster takes on contemporary America in “Eddington.” Joaquin Phoenix stars as a local ...
"Eddington," co-starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes and Micheal Ward, opens in theaters ...
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