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‘Eddington’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal Square Off in Ari Aster’s Brazenly Provocative Western Thriller, Set During the Pandemic the Film Says Made America Lose Its Mind
Aster tweaks a few liberal shibboleths, but he's really out to capture how the pandemic era marked the start of America losing its collective mind.
But in “ Eddington,” his teasingly audacious, bracingly outside-the-box cosmic sociological Western thriller, writer-director Ari Aster(“Beau Is Afraid,” “Midsommar”) gleefully tosses any hint of liberal art-house orthodoxy to the winds. Nevertheless, that he kicks off his film by skewering COVID protocols, only to lampoon the radical-chic fervor of middle-class white kids, may make you wonder, for a moment, if Ari Aster has turned into some right-wing hipster auteur tossing cherry bombs attached to Fox News talking points. It all begins with Phoenix’s desperate, shuffling, borderline incompetent sheriff coming under fire for his anti-mask stance, then making the decision to challenge the city’s mayor, Ted Garcia ( Pedro Pascal), with his posh backers and facile grin.
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