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In his latest feature, "Midsommar" provocateur Ari Aster gruelingly chronicles mass hysteria with no perspective ...
Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ is perfect, but it took Aster trying hundreds of songs after not getting the rights to a Jay-Z track.
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 ...
In this desert setting, with characters both buffoonish and evil at once, there’s a distinctly Coen brothers slant to ...
Western takes swings at nearly every domestic political issue of the day, but the auteur believes it can all be distilled ...
Moviegoers have grown accustomed to expecting a lack of normalcy in Aster's movies. His first three films — “Hereditary,” ...
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.
In the A24 horror auteur's Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix is a small-town sheriff struggling to keep the peace in a locked-down ...
The film takes place in May 2020 in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, and becomes a battleground when Sheriff Joe ...
Aster: There’s one clear winner in this film and that’s the important thing to remember: I’ll just say, it’s in the final ...
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Past a petrified mastodon skull and display cases of glittering gypsum and halite, Ari Aster is ...
Paul Haggis’ Crash (2004) is a shallow film; its characters nothing more than reductive racial tropes colliding into and ...