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Ari Aster on the One Scene That Explains All of ‘Eddington’

You’d be hard-pressed to find a hot-button issue in the American culture war that Ari Aster’s “Eddington” doesn’t take a swing at. Arguably the first great film made about the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...
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Ari Aster wants viewers to argue about ‘Eddington’: ‘The movie is about polarization’

Ari Aster may have a reputation as an elevated horror guy, but inside the New York-born, New Mexico-raised filmmaker behind Hereditary and Midsommar there was always a Western dying to get out. That ...

One Thing's Been Bothering Me The Most About Eddington, And I Can't Stop Thinking About It

When I first heard about Eddington, I wasn't sure what to think. In fact, after reading into Ari Aster’s thriller about a town becoming a powder keg at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I didn’t ...
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Ari Aster Breaks Down the Ambiguous Ending of Eddington

Warning: This piece contains major spoilers for the ending of Eddington. Ari Aster is no stranger to making movies that get people’s attention. His debut feature, Hereditary, and his sophomore effort, ...
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Director Ari Aster discusses Eddington

A standoff between a small-town sheriff and a mayor pits neighbor against neighbor in Director Ari Aster’s dark comedy western, Eddington. Aster’s film takes us back to May 2020 when a clash over ...
Salon

Ari Aster wants us to relive COVID dread — but we never left

The only way out is through. Unless, of course, you choose to take a seat and stay a while. And in his latest film, “Eddington,” writer-director Ari Aster invites you for an extended stay in the ...
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‘Hereditary’ Director Explains How His New Pedro Pascal Western Reveals the Chilling Consequences of Technology

For his latest feature, acclaimed writer-director Ari Aster explores a modern-day Wild West with what's being hailed as a contemporary Western, Eddington. The movie reunites the filmmaker with ...
The New Yorker

The Director Ari Aster Explains His COVID-Era Western “Eddington”

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. “I’m personally desperate for art that at least attempts to grapple with ...
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“Making a Movie is Just a Succession of On-Set Challenges”: Ari Aster on Eddington

Ari Aster previously used the horror genre as a lens to examine dysfunctional family dynamics in Hereditary and break-up messiness in Midsommar. He then pivoted to the manic surrealism of Beau is ...
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Ari Aster Breaks Down the Ambiguous Ending of Eddington

Levitt is a contributor for TIME. Joaquin Phoenix as Sheriff Joe Cross and Pedro Pascal as Mayor Ted Garcia Joaquin Phoenix as Sheriff Joe Cross and Pedro Pascal as Mayor Ted GarciaCourtesy of A24 ...
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Every Ari Aster Movie, Ranked

In a sea of modern filmmakers, director Ari Aster continuously hypnotizes audiences with his superlative use of the bizarre macabre. The gifted director is notorious for his incredibly unhinged films, ...