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Since the premiere of Ari Aster’s Eddington at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, the word I’ve constantly ...
When Ari Aster went to his friends’ homes for childhood sleepovers, his dread would escalate as the situation became clear: ...
BOTTOM LINE An inventive satire about an infuriating cultural moment. Would you like to revisit the COVID-19 pandemic? I didn ...
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.
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.
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 ...
A New Mexico town during the 2020 COVID lockdown is the setting for Aster’s darkly comic satire. Topher Gauk-Roger contributed to this story by David Daniel.
In pandemic-era New Mexico, a sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and a mayor (Pedro Pascal) face off against one another, and their ...
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," co-starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes and Micheal Ward, opens in theaters ...
Ari Aster’s movies, from “Hereditary” to “Midsommar,” traffic in trauma. And “Eddington” is dense with multiple levels that stoke the ever-present unease.