Eddington - Reviews

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

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

...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.

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...

...a brilliant, blood-soaked skewering of modern America.

...it’s a heightened but recognisably real comedic satire set during the doldrums of the initial coronavirus outbreak, amid the divisions and conflicts that it sparked, and the pre-existing social and cultural fault lines that it laid bare.

...a deeply cynical film for deeply cynical times.

...is often an uncomfortable watch, but you won’t want to look away.

...Aster is a filmmaker of considerable talent, and even a lesser movie of his—such as Eddington—still has many dazzling flourishes and moments of visceral impact.

It’s clever, serrated, and not bad, but you wouldn’t call it Aster at full mad tilt.

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...

It’s a film overflowing with ideas, which is something to be praised, even if it all feels like a hot, toxic mess.

...the work of a maturing filmmaker eager to make it clear that his dark and scathing sense of humor is anything but an empty provocation.