Eddington

Director: Ari Aster

2025 / 148min / 4K DCP

YOUR BEING MANIPULATED. It brings us no pleasure to report that, little more than a year after its release (and mixed critical reception), Aster’s fourth feature has “aged” extraordinarily well—which is to say, more and more people have come to recognize, in its astringent sendup of the lockdown era and attendant lunacy, one of the sharpest fictional depictions of terminally online America and its ever-increasing derangement. You’ve got Pedro Pascal as a small-town Justin Trudeau, Austin Butler as an off-brand Russell Brand, Joaquin Phoenix as a county sheriff of the Jim Thompson school, Antifa supersoldiers, Geronimo’s bones… What’s not to like? “[Eddington] was a meaningful script. You could already feel the depth, and you could feel the potential of what you could do with it… [Ari] can’t stand lies in cinema. In the way you film, you can lie a lot. You can cheat a lot. He doesn’t really work that way; he has to be true, and I love that.” —Darius Khondji

Distributor: A24

Q&A with director Ari Aster and cinematographer Darius Khondji on Saturday, September 26th

Part of Radical Chiaroscuro: The Work of Darius Khondji