Film Review – Everything Everywhere All at Once

The multiverse is big business these days, with superhero cinema in the midst of exploring the mysterious ways of alternate timelines and different lives. The art house version of this idea is found in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which comes from writer/directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (credited as “Daniels”), who previously helmed the 2016 comedy “Swiss Army Man.” The gentlemen love the weird stuff, and they’ve accelerated their fantasies and fixations for their latest project, which takes the long way around when examining a middle-aged Chinese woman and all the relationships she’s neglected to deal with. However, Daniels doesn’t have a drama in mind, going the fantastical route instead, with “Everything Everywhere All at Once” an explosion of feelings, fighting, and oddity. It’s a whole lot of everything, which is now an official Daniels fetish, taking audiences on a 139-minute-long ride into confusion as a way of detailing their own philosophies and amplifying their filmmaking interests. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com