The sheriff is Joe Cross, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who has long had a rivalry with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). Cross ...

Ari Aster is one of my favorite filmmakers working today. I believe he is responsible for not just some of the best A24 ...

Two exciting young genre filmmakers have films out in theaters: Ari Aster, with the contemporary Western “Eddington,” which ...

The writer and director Ari Aster narrates a sequence from his film featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal.

Phoenix went on to prove his critics wrong. He has since earned four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Actor for his ...

Phoenix’s latest is “Eddington,” a COVID-era Western from his “Beau Is Afraid” writer-director Ari Aster. Similar to their last collaboration, “Eddington” is proving divisive among film critics and ...

Ari Aster’s Eddington is a dark comedy and suspenseful drama set in May 2020, which follows a small-town mayoral race between ...

A look at Ari Aster's modern day western and what it reveals about the culture wars of COVID, and how that impacts small town ...

With Eddington, Ari Aster lets loose the panicky, cringe-inducing frenzy of 2020 and beyond, releasing COVID cinema from ...

Then there are the great many people who might be reluctant to revisit 2020 in a film at all, regardless of the context. But ...

This summer, as the sun blazes overhead, movies are heating up with stories worth escaping into. Whether viewers are chasing ...

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