Eddington opens in theaters Friday, July 18. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. With Eddington, 21st-century horror maestro Ari Aster makes an ambitious swing ...

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Though “Eddington” isn’t a horror film in the vein of other Aster movies like “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” it’s still meant to unsettle: Set in May 2020, the film explores how the ...

Ari Aster, the visionary director behind Hereditary and Midsommar, returns with Eddington, a provocative contemporary Western that explores the deep societal divides of pandemic-era America.

Ari Aster's COVID-era Western Eddington, about a 2020 America quickly losing its mind to conspiracy theories, TikTok and political extremism, premiered to a mixed reception at the Cannes Film ...

Joaquin Phoenix and Ari Aster's 'Eddington' made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival, earning a five-minute standing ovation. The contemporary Western, set during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

“Eddington” could be a tough sell for audiences unwilling to be submersed again in summer 2020 and all the chaos and anxieties it erupted. Other pundits I’ve spoken to defend “Eddington ...

Pedro Pascal, Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix at the Cannes Film Festival photocall for "Eddington" (Getty Images) It’s no surprise that “Eddington,” the provocative new film from writer and ...

‘Eddington’ Cannes Premiere Gets Nearly Seven-Minute Ovation That Moves Joaquin Phoenix To Tears Nada Aboul Kheir, Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione Fri, May 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM UTC ...

Ari Aster’s Eddington is sort of like that brain rot in movie form. That, of course, might not seem broadly appealing, but when has Aster, the provocateur behind Midsommar and Beau Is Afraid ...

But in “Eddington,” his teasingly audacious, bracingly outside-the-box cosmic sociological Western thriller, writer-director Ari Aster (“Beau Is Afraid,” “Midsommar”) gleefully tosses ...