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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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
Critics Have Seen Eddington, And They’re Saying Joaquin Phoenix And Pedro Pascal’s Neo-Western Has Been ‘Designed To Enrage Us’
Travis Hopsin of Punch Drunk Critics says the fear surrounding the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd protests ...
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: ...
He’s the visual genius that auteurs like Ari Aster trust. But cinematographer Darius Khondji is chasing a feeling
He's collaborated with everyone from David Fincher to the Safdies, but the Iranian-born cinematographer, most recently of ...
Review: Ari Aster's 'Eddington' with Joaquin Phoenix gleefully gores left and right sacred cows
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.
‘Eddington’ is a satire about our broken brains that might re-break your brain
Hereditary” and “Midsommar” director Ari Aster takes on contemporary America in “Eddington.” Joaquin Phoenix stars as a local ...