In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. Director Ari Aster (HEREDITARY, MIDSOMMAR) takes on the roots of our current culture war in this epic modern Western doomscroll. Co-starring Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Luke Grimes and Clifton Collins Jr., among others.
“More conventional than any of Aster’s previous work, EDDINGTON is also more rigorous and explicit in its political engagement — the work of a maturing filmmaker eager to make it clear that his dark and scathing sense of humor is anything but an empty provocation.” —Elena Lazic, The Playlist “The first truly modern American Western, or at least the first one that has the nowness required to mention Pop Crave by name, Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON is also the first major Hollywood movie that’s been willing to see the COVID pandemic for the hellacious paradigm shift that it was — as the moment when years of technologically engineered polarization tore a forever hole in the social fabric of a country that was already coming apart at the seams.” —David Ehrlich, IndieWire “This latest film is surely Aster’s finest, firmly establishing his control of craft, blending his most brash tendencies with a welcome focus on what truly connects us, for good and for ill.” —Jason Gorber, Paste Magazine
