'Eddington' Review: Joaquin Phoenix Battles Pedro Pascal in Ari Aster's Pandemic Satire

Controversial auteur Ari Aster revisits the COVID-19 pandemic's most divisive issues in Eddington, an absolutely bonkers Neo-Western satire that's both hilarious and disturbing. The film takes right-wing and conspiracy-theorist talking points and sets them on fire: Picture an unholy stew of anti-mask activists and vaccine deniers, angrily raging against a raging mob of Black Lives Matter protesters and armed Antifa terrorists. By using a small Southwestern town as a microcosm of our worst societal instincts, Aster exposes the lunacy of deep fractures driven by jealousy, hatred and blind ignorance in a time of collective trauma.
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