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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: For the first hour, hour and a half of Eddington, we got a sharp satire of the madness that was the 2020 Summer of Love. However, as Eddington continues, it starts dragging.
- Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: 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.
- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Aster (Midsommar, Beau is Afraid) takes aim at all sides in a film that’s part satire and part thriller. No matter how each viewer reacted to the pandemic, the film offers at least a character or two that will come close to representing their viewpoint.
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The collapse of society plays out like theater, equally absurd and terrifying. It’s the closest any film has come to capturing 2020, when every rule, every human connection, and every institution seemed ready to crack.
- Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: The coronavirus makes everyone and this satirical Western go insane.
- [new] | Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: By the time a literal dumpster fire appeared, I wondered if someone was going to jump over a shark too. After all, the lesson here is that everyone who doesn’t become a martyr will eventually sell out.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Ari Aster gets carried away skewering the pandemic and people’s response to it in this “modern Western” that tackles too much without much in the way of point or conviction. It’s far too all over the place and underwritten to leave much of an impact, other than a deep frustration for what this could have been.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Excerpt: It’s a wholly depressing remembrance and forecast that Aster has of and for America in Eddington, full of exaggerations with no punchline.
- Diego Salgado @ Sofilm [Spanish]
- Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: For A24, Ari Aster looks back at the turbulent year of 2020 in Eddington starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone.
- Dennis Schwartz @ dennisschwartzreviews.com
- Excerpt: The performances by Phoenix and Pascal were good.
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Had ‘Eddington’ been released in 2015, it would have played like an outlandish satire in the vein of ‘Southland Tales.’ Coming in 2025, it seems almost like a story you dimly remember scrolling past on your Instagram feed.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
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