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Ari Aster's New Nightmare: What If It Was May 2020 Again?
In the A24 horror auteur's ‘Eddington,’ Joaquin Phoenix is a small-town sheriff struggling to keep the peace in a locked-down ...
How Ari Aster made the year’s most divisive film
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Past a petrified mastodon skull and display cases of glittering gypsum and halite, Ari Aster is ...
Eddington is a political satire by horror auteur Ari Aster. But is it also a western?
Eddington follows the story of a small-town sheriff at odds with a social media-savvy mayor over COVID-era masking mandates — ...
‘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 ...
Ari Aster is just asking questions, like "How the hell do we get off this thing?"
Aster sat down with The A.V. Club after a screening of Eddington at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to talk about the terrifying ...
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 ...
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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 ...