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Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ is perfect, but it took Aster trying hundreds of songs after not getting the rights to a Jay-Z track.
In the A24 horror auteur's Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix is a small-town sheriff struggling to keep the peace in a locked-down ...
Ari Aster’s Eddington isn’t rooted in any actual feud or real historical events but emerged from his own lived experience during the early months of the COVID‑19 pandemic.
A24's Eddington is Ari Aster's worst film. It grips tightly onto social media speak and doesn't let go, to its detriment. The ...
Western takes swings at nearly every domestic political issue of the day, but the auteur believes it can all be distilled ...
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Past a petrified mastodon skull and display cases of glittering gypsum and halite, Ari Aster is ...
Ari Aster's “Eddington,” appropriately enough, has been divisive. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, ...
The film takes place in May 2020 in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, and becomes a battleground when Sheriff Joe ...
The director’s polarizing new film comes after the commercial failure of ‘Beau Is Afraid.’ He’s not not worried.
Eddington, the latest film from Hereditary director Ari Aster, is a dark comedy about COVID-fueled chaos in a fictional New ...
Aster sat down with The A.V. Club after a screening of Eddington at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to talk about the terrifying ...
Paul Haggis’ Crash (2004) is a shallow film; its characters nothing more than reductive racial tropes colliding into and ...