Eddington
Film details
| Film Title | Eddington |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 149mins |
| Year | 2025 |
| Country | United States of America, Finland |
| Director | Ari Aster |
| Actors | Joaquin Phoenix, Deirdre O'Connell, Emma Stone, Micheal Ward, Pedro Pascal, Cameron Mann, Matt Gomez Hidaka, Luke Grimes, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Austin Butler, Landall Goolsby, Elise Falanga, King Orba |
| Language | English |
| Showings |
In May 2020, a tense public standoff between the small-town sheriff and the mayor of Eddington, New Mexico, ignites into a powder-keg conflict that tears the community apart. Ari Aster’s new film turns this simple civic confrontation into an uncompromising portrait of fear, fervour and the slow unravelling of civic trust. What begins as a question of authority — who enforces what, and who answers to whom — quickly metastasises into something much darker: ritualised blame, whispered conspiracies, and the way private grief and long-buried grudges are weaponised in a town where everyone has a neighbour’s secret.
An audacious, farcically funny digest of where we are now, and how we got here: the cinematic equivalent of pandemic primal therapy, a mad scream into the void.
★★★★
Your mileage will vary according to your stomach for this stuff, but I found myself breathless with giggles at times, sometimes the therapeutic laugh of recognition and sometimes because Aster has a keen eye for what’s most absurd about human nature.
★★★★
Aster has given us another movie that chills you, unnerves you and makes you want to crawl out of your skin. You just wish this one didn’t feel so close to being nonfiction.
★★★★
