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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 ...
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 ...
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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: ...
Doomscrolling is a disease in ‘Eddington,’ a fever dream about COVID conspiracies
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.
Gia Coppola, Mark Ruffalo, Ari Aster Help Drive Audiences to Rome’s Cinema in Piazza Screenings
Gia Coppola, Mark Ruffalo, Ari Aster and Brady Corbet Help Drive Audiences to Rome's Cinema in Piazza Screenings ...
With 'Eddington,' Ari Aster has crafted a dark, cynical fable about an America on the verge of collapse
At 39, the American director is tapping into a vein of contemporary nihilism, where the grotesque and the outrageous overlap ...
‘Eddington’ Review: Once Upon a Time in the Pandemic
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 ...
'Eddington' director, cast members preview political Western set during COVID-19 pandemic
"Eddington," co-starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes and Micheal Ward, opens in theaters ...