Micheal Ward plays the sole Black character in Eddington. Of course he’s a police officer. Richard Foreman/A24 hide caption toggle caption Richard Foreman/A24 If you know nothing of Ari Aster’s Eddington going in — or of the nature of his previous films, including Hereditary and Midsommar — the time stamp that appears on the screen within the first few minutes …
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Ari Aster’s “Eddington” is such a superb social satire about contemporary America that I want to bury it in the desert for 20 years. More distance will make it easier to laugh. It’s a modern western set in New Mexico — Aster’s home state — where trash blows like tumbleweeds as Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) stalks across the street …
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — A Post-it note sat near Ari Aster while he wrote “Eddington”: “Remember the phones.” “Eddington” may be set during the pandemic, but the onset of COVID-19 isn’t its inciting incident. Outside the fictional New Mexico town, a data center is being built. Inside Eddington, its residents — their brains increasingly addled by the internet, social media, …
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