Eddington doesn’t seek to provide the answers. But it might be the only film since the pandemic that understands that the current conflict in America has deeper roots for humanity’s problems than whether you vote red or blue.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

The film certainly looks and functions better than the average piece of COVID media, but it rings just as self-serving, more of an exercise in anxiety management for its creator than something with tangible meaning for the viewer.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Too little, too soon.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Eddington is a deeply-cynical film, one that (correctly) notes we’ve lost ourselves… if in fact we ever had actual selves worth holding onto. The lunatics run the asylum now.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

The first great art about the pandemic. Aster synthesizes every pandemic-era absurdity into a wholly original farcical pastiche that plays something like arthouse South Park.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 27, 2025

A dizzying, disorienting descent into America’s soul sickness. With brutal satire and intentional chaos, it holds up a devastating mirror to our fractured reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2025

It feels like there is truly nothing meaningful within Eddington. What a waste of time and potential.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

Aster manages to spike tension without losing the reins over two-and-a-half hours thanks to the sharp cinematography by Darius Khondji.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

Indeed, in the end, Aster’s movie is chillingly unsettling, leading us through a labyrinth of cause-and-effect inevitabilities and delivering us, finally, to a place that feels both disconcertingly unresolved and alarmingly familiar.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

There’s a little bit of Robert Altman’s Nashville in the way Aster introduces a sprawling cast and quickly gives them motivations and flaws which set them on collision courses with both reality and each other.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

Just when you think it’s headed somewhere, Ari Aster’s film starts to devolve and we’re not quite sure what it’s trying to say.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2025

While not as technically ambitious as his last movie, Eddington is Aster’s most daring from a storytelling perspective that he mostly pulls off.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2025

Eddington is so solemnly goofy that its vision of polarized America might as well not be a satire.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

There are a myriad things that can go wrong in Eddington, and Aster deliberately chooses the worst beats. I understand that it’s all satire, but it reaches almost unfathomable extremes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2025

The film picks up pace, turning away from its metaphorical bombast and into a deranged action-thriller, one that sparks our own excitement too late in the long bog of pandemic pondering.

Full Review | Jul 24, 2025

It is undeniably a great effort from everyone involved. And it’s exceedingly, darkly funny. For a first attempt at a Western, I’d say Aster nailed it.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 23, 2025

No major film since Cord Jefferson’s 'American Fiction' has tackled the culture war fray with the force, specificity, and humor of Ari Aster’s 'Eddington.'

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 23, 2025

Undeniably a messy film that is still fascinating to watch. Aster continues to tap into our horrific anxieties and reminds us that even the most absurd scenarios worthy of our laughter and scorn can take a turn for the worse if we allow it to fester.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 23, 2025

...Eddington is downright realistic in its portrayal of small-town politics and love triangles, building its narrative detail by telling detail.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2025

What Aster is trying to achieve isn’t always exactly clear because he doesn’t have anything new or insightful to communicate about the pandemic or racial division.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2025