Eddington with Ari Aster in person

Dir. Ari Aster. 2025, 145 mins. U.S. DCP. With Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Micheal Ward, Deirdre O’Connell, Luke Grimes, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau. If you think that life in these here United States has come to feel like an endlessly simmering standoff in a western, then Ari Aster has got a movie for you. In his exhilarating, wildly (and aptly) cynical new vision, set at the inflection point of May 2020, Aster pits the intractable factions of the contemporary sociopolitical divide against one another—personified in a small-town New Mexico sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal)—in an escalating series of faceoffs. No one (especially the audience) gets off easy. An elegantly structured pitch-dark comedy, Eddington is both caustic prank and serious as a heart attack, boasting the director’s customary visual control and mastery of storytelling, and brilliantly acted by a fearless, fully committed cast. 

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