Eddington
2025movie
Published. July 21, 2025. Flipboard. Reddit.Eddington stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal and features a genre blend of neo-western, black comedy, and crime thriller elements that mesh together into a grand scale. Aster is no rookie when it comes to daring genre blending as he has displayed it more and more throughout his filmography. He has also shown a sense of fearlessness instilled in his filmmaking wether it garners positive results or not.
Eddington carries a stellar cast, fearless direction by Ari Aster and an off-kilter story, but its tonal misdirection will often leave viewers wanting.Ari Aster’s severely divisive Covid-set western shows that anxieties about himself and a broken world are his stock in trade. His therapy is to laugh them into submission. His gift as an artist is to invite us to join him.
