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World Has Gone Haywire in Ari Aster’s Eddington

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“Eddington” ending explained: What's with the data center in Ari Aster’s controversial dark comedy?
Eddington, the latest film from Hereditary director Ari Aster, is a dark comedy about COVID-fueled chaos in a fictional New Mexico town. The film wades into hot-button topics regarding police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, AI investment, and mask mandates, among others. Ari Aster is asking for trouble with Eddington.

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Ari Aster on the One Scene That Explains All of ‘Eddington’
Ari Aster Explains the ‘Very Strong Politics’ of Eddington
Ari Aster made a movie about polarized America. 'Eddington' has been polarizing
“Eddington,” which A24 releases in theaters Friday, may be the most prominent American movie yet to explicitly wrestle with social and political division in the U.S.

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We Almost Lived in a Timeline Where ‘Morbius’ Was Made by ‘Midsommar’ Director Ari Aster
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How Ari Aster made the year’s most divisive film
In signature Aster fashion, the third act is so over-the-top violent that a woman at a Santa Fe screening asked Aster to explain how he uses special effects to create such a wide variety of deaths.

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How Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal Embraced the Anxious Madness of Eddington
Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Eddington' - Get ready to be polarised
Ari Aster and Museum of the Moving Image Are Hosting an ‘Eddington’-Inspired Film Series
Ari Aster and the Museum of the Moving Image will host an 'Eddington'-inspired film series with Aster in attendance.
'Eddington' review: Ari Aster misfires as Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix face off
Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in "Eddington." Credit: A24 Comedy is tragedy plus time. There may be a day when critics look back on Ari Aster's COVID-19 comedy Eddington with kinder eyes.
Luke Grimes Says ‘Eddington’ Director Ari Aster Was On His Bucket List
The 'Yellowstone' star discusses his love for the filmmaker and working with Joaquin Phoenix in A24's darkly satirical neo-Western.
‘Eddington’ Review: Once Upon a Time in the Pandemic
The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down the center of a road running through an empty Western town. He’s ranting and incoherently raving as he climbs a craggy hill silhouetted against a twilight sky. He gazes, or maybe glares, out at the town below.
He’s the visual genius that auteurs like Ari Aster trust. But cinematographer Darius Khondji is chasing a feeling
He's collaborated with everyone from David Fincher to the Safdies, but the Iranian-born cinematographer, most recently of "Eddington," wants them all to feel like family.
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COVID-set 'Eddington' takes us back to a nation at a breaking point
Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on politically opposing sides in a well-off community during the summer of 2020. "'Eddington' has something to offend (or annoy) just about everybody,
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