Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on ...

In pandemic-era New Mexico, a sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and a mayor (Pedro Pascal) face off against one another, and their ...

The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down the center of a road running through an empty Western town. He’s ranting ...

Since the premiere of Ari Aster’s Eddington at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, the word I’ve constantly ...

Review: The problem with an anarchic satire like “Eddington” is that any criticism could easily be dismissed with a “that’s ...

In "Eddington," Ari Aster's unpleasant and explosive neo-western black comedy, the writer-director plunges viewers into a ...

On the basis of his films Hereditary and Midsommer, it would be tempting to pigeonhole Ari Aster as a director of horror ...

BOTTOM LINE An inventive satire about an infuriating cultural moment. Would you like to revisit the COVID-19 pandemic? I didn ...

Ari Aster’s movies, from “Hereditary” to “Midsommar,” traffic in trauma. And “Eddington” is dense with multiple levels that stoke the ever-present unease.

Set in early 2020, the bleak, black comedy takes on COVID, masks, BLM, police violence, Antifa, white guilt, white grievance and the growth of toxic online influencers.

Phoenix recalled the 2009 interview during an appearance on Late Show With Stephen Colbert, explaining why he decided to appear in-character for the interview with Letterman for the mockumentary he ...

If that sounds like a lot of controversy to pack into a single film, well, that’s Aster’s intent. If something even more ...