Eddington gets the pandemic right but still isn’t a great movie

A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but successful its aboriginal days arsenic a distributor, it made astir of its wealth from elevated fearfulness films similar Ari Aster's Hereditary and Midsommar. Over a decennary in, the ambitions of A24 and Aster person expanded beyond genre film. But for both, the much caller results person been mixed.

Eddington, Aster's latest, feels similar a continuation of the maximalist guilt-trip Beau Is Afraid. Joaquin Phoenix stars erstwhile again, though the concerns present are little Jewish and Oedipal and much wokeness and conspiracy theories. It's grounded successful the contemporary: the aboriginal days of the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically. The movie's …

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