Eddington (2025)

	Directed by: Ari Aster	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama/Satire NORWEGIAN TITLE Eddington RUNNING TIME 149 minutes
	Produced by: Lars Knudsen Ari Aster Ann Ruark
	Written by: Ari Aster

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Joe Cross	Joaquin Phoenix	½
Ted Garcia	Pedro Pascal
Louise Cross	Emma Stone
Vernon Jefferson Peak	Austin Butler	½
Guy Tooley	Luke Grimes	-
Dawn	Deirdre O'Connell	½
Michael Cooke	Micheal Ward	-
Sarah Allen	Amélie Hoeferle	-
Lodge	Clifton Collins Jr.	-

Review

Ari Aster undoubtedly is a talented filmmaker, which he proved with his two inventive horror excursions Hereditary and Midsommar, but it seems that rambling has become his new form of storytelling lately. In Eddington – a kooky satire about a seemingly kooky nation on the brink of dissolution – conspiracy theorists, cult leaders and anti-this-and-that activists are mixed into a noisy and deliberately divisive hotchpotch of a film. The setting is a small New Mexico town during the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the overriding theme is the ideological and political clashes between its inhabitants, who without exception overreact and talk past each other. It’s less a story than a relay race of grievances, each handed off before the previous one has gone anywhere. And the self-absorbed characters are certainly difficult to care for. If Aster's purpose was to satirise the current agitative climate in the Un-United States, he's pushing against an open door. There's already enough satire from the real world around these topics. These aren't voices that have trouble being heard; they are rather overexposed. So for a relatively sane European, the best part about Eddington is the privilege to turn it off.