
‘Eddington’ reviews: Ari Aster’s ‘brazenly provocative’ Covid-era Western earns strong praise from critics

Ari Aster’s star-studded new film Eddington has found fans among some of the industry’s top critics following its debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
“The first truly modern American Western, or at least the first one that has the nowness required to mention Pop Crave by name, Ari Aster’s Eddington is also the first major Hollywood movie that’s been willing to see the Covid pandemic for the hellacious paradigm shift that it was — as the moment when years of technologically engineered polarization tore a forever hole in the social fabric of a country that was already coming apart at the seams,” wrote David Ehrlich in his review for Indiewire. “Few other filmmakers would have the chutzpah required to make a No Country for Old Men riff that hinges on mask mandates and the murder of George Floyd, and we should probably all be grateful that none of them have tried.
“The first truly modern American Western, or at least the first one that has the nowness required to mention Pop Crave by name, Ari Aster’s Eddington is also the first major Hollywood movie that’s been willing to see the Covid pandemic for the hellacious paradigm shift that it was — as the moment when years of technologically engineered polarization tore a forever hole in the social fabric of a country that was already coming apart at the seams,” wrote David Ehrlich in his review for Indiewire. “Few other filmmakers would have the chutzpah required to make a No Country for Old Men riff that hinges on mask mandates and the murder of George Floyd, and we should probably all be grateful that none of them have tried.
- 5/16/2025
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
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