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

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

Ari Aster, the man behind some of Hollywood’s most unsettling films, takes his own anxiety and puts it onscreen.

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

At 39, the American director is tapping into a vein of contemporary nihilism, where the grotesque and the outrageous overlap ...

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.

Eddington is a film in the genre of neo-western dark comedy, and it's written and directed by Ari Aster. It premiered in the ...

Ari Aster triggers a universal anxiety attack with a COVID Western about how the West was unmade.

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Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone take on early 2020 pandemic crises of every sort in Ari Aster’s “Eddington.” ...

A New Mexico town during the 2020 COVID lockdown is the setting for Aster’s darkly comic satire. Topher Gauk-Roger contributed to this story by David Daniel.

Ari Aster delivers an engaging, thought-provoking Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.