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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 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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Once upon a time during the pandemic
Ari Aster’s "Eddington" stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone, but doesn’t really know what to do with them.
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.