Film Review – Eddington

After scoring a box office and critical hit with 2019’s “Midsommar,” writer/director Ari Aster was offered an opportunity to take a big creative swing with a sizable budget. The gamble resulted in the creation of 2023’s “Beau is Afraid,” which failed to attract an audience, and perhaps understandably so. Aster crafted a picture that was intentionally unbearable, showing little interest in keeping viewers involved in his vision of absolute misery. Aster returns to screens with “Eddington,” and he’s not giving up on his mission to make the audience feel awful about the world around them. The helmer turns to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic for this study of psychological corruption, returning to his love of tortured characters and the impossible situations of survival they find themselves in. “Eddington” has a range of interesting ideas to share about the insanity of the last five years, but Aster retains his habitual indulgences, losing the impact of his examinations the longer he draws out the run time. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com