Eddington

The latest film from Ari Aster, Eddington, is a wild ride.

Calling Eddington the greatest fictional film yet produced about the COVID-19 pandemic might seem like faint praise. It is not.

It’s not just about the divisiveness of 2020; it’s designed to be divisive itself in 2025. To that end, even if you hate it, it’s kind of done its job.

Few other filmmakers would have the chutzpah required to make a “No Country for Old Men” riff that hinges on mask mandates and the murder of George Floyd...

...is a raw nerve, a naked depiction of the state America has gotten itself into, and it's not so egotistical as to suggest either an ending or a way out.

Excoriating and exhilarating in equal measure, it is the first truly great movie to deal explicitly with the unique madness and malice that the global pandemic revealed...