Ari Aster is one of the rare directors willing to go there, and his new film Eddington is extraordinary not only for that but for depicting a slice of history that we have yet to see properly ...

Cannes: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal run against each other for mayor in a small New Mexico town that's about to go up in flames. The first truly modern American Western, or at least the first ...

Fittingly, when making his Film About America – and with it, his bid for auteur ascendance – Ari Aster has gone and done two “Eddingtons.” Soon to launch one thousand polemics from this ...

Ari Aster is no longer cocooning. When the auteur initially emerged with the arguably, somewhat traditional horrors of Hereditary and Midsommar, audiences, myself included, may have confused the ...

This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. With Eddington, 21st-century horror maestro Ari Aster makes an ambitious swing towards politically flavored comedy – but he ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Aster’s fourth feature shares some key qualities with its immediate predecessor. It’s bloated, self-indulgent, rambling, crazily ambitious and commendably odd ...

Set during the early days of the pandemic, Ari Aster’s mix of social satire, suspense, and 21st century paranoia still feels way too close for comfort After a skirmish at the local supermarket ...

Death end re;Quest Code Z is the first time I've played a Compile Heart game in three long years. After the PSVita years, I felt that the publisher had stopped innovating or improving, and my ...

Ari Aster’s fourth feature seeks nothing less than to deliver a definitive snapshot of what America felt like during the height of the 2020 global pandemic. Eddington is a mad vision targeting ...