‘Eddington’ (dir. by Ari Aster) | Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone | A24
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I agree with most of this. Felt like the movie had 3-4 different short films inside of it and each one got progressively worse.Loved it the most when the film keyed in on the political rivalry and boiling tension between Joaquin and Pedro’s characters. That shyt was gripping. It does some things later on that lost me completely and particularly in the last act.
Aster does black comedy really well though. This was the most I’ve ever laughed in a film from him. He was on some Coen Bros type shyt here. Either subtle shots like Pedro hoarding rolls of toilet paper or something as loud as Joaquin navigating his way through protest chaos with a fukkin’ gimbal in his hand. These moments conjured up some surreal memories from the pandemic, some I’m witnessing even now in 2025 sadly, but Ari’s style of humor made what was a cold-hearted, cynical take on the world more digestible to me.
The way Pedro got clapped.
Scenes like this are dope af but nerve-wracking at the same time because I always wonder if the film will either rise to the occasion onwards or crumble apart.
With Eddington, I thought it was the latter. It feels so contradictory to say the story lost edge as soon as gunfire is introduced, but it really did for me. Pedro played a confident a$$hole well enough to be the perfect foil to Joaquin and just like that, he’s gone. Nobody else could step up. Not even the over-the-top “Antifa” terrorist attacks.
It wasn’t the politics that was the problem for me here. TSC fam would get the comp, but this felt like the equivalent of watching a wrestling match that’s teetering on the edge of being a classic, only to end in a DQ. The DQ to me was Ari sniffing his own farts in that last hour and while I appreciate his swings in filmmaking, I can’t help but feel as if he is simultaneously drowning creatively ever since Hereditary and Midsommar.
Started really good, then started to get a little shaky and then by the end it goes off the rails and not in a good way. But I gotta say that the last 5-7 minutes it manages to finish in great fashion.
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Precise and cold hearted
Im the opposite. I thought the movie started slow and boring. Got better as it went on then just just kind of ended and I wasnt sure what I just watched lol
Watched it again last week and liked it way more this time around. Love it, actually. Firmly in my top 3 films of the year. It was a lot to take in on first watch, but I really liked the way this was able to unapologetically unzip such a weird time in America. There without a doubt would’ve been a naive sense of optimism portrayed in its story had this came from a bigger studio, which would undercut the entire thing.
Hereditary is still Ari’s best IMO. Deeply layered, yet tightly contained and highly doubt his last three films would get off the ground without it. Not sure why he stopped working with Lame because her editing would’ve came clutch in these last two entries.
This and OBAA in the same year is a crazy feat to me though. Would call it a lock for a Criterion release if A24 wasn’t already handling their boutique drops in-house.
Just finished this and 
Pacing started off slow but the payoff was worth it
Pacing started off slow but the payoff was worth it
I thought COVID would take him out in the end.
The film was filled with irony, so a fitting end would have been for Cross doing all that Rambo shyt out there and dying because he didn't wear a mask
The way he ultimately went out was awful but an asthma attack doing him in would have been perfect
The film was filled with irony, so a fitting end would have been for Cross doing all that Rambo shyt out there and dying because he didn't wear a mask
The way he ultimately went out was awful but an asthma attack doing him in would have been perfect