It sounds like Ari Aster's 'Eddington' will be the most polarizing film of the year

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@Deadline

‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s Explosive, Satirical Neo-Western Takes A Big Swing At MAGA Culture 

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@NextBestPicture

EDDINGTON isn’t just the definitive film about the pandemic, it may be the most unflinchingly accurate portrait yet of how deeply America has spiraled into paranoia, hysteria, and unapologetic selfishness. What begins as a damning political commentary morphs into a murder investigation before descending into full-blown madness by the end. Joaquin Phoenix once again proves himself to be the ideal instrument for Ari Aster’s deranged vision. Overstuffed, darkly humorous and unafraid to piss people off, it’s a new kind of horror for Aster, one that hits close to home and deservedly so.

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@davidehrlich

Eddington: Ari Aster's Covid freakout feels like the first truly modern American Western, or at least the first one with enough integrity to mention @PopCrave by name. it's, uh, gonna be polarizing, but i loved it.

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@filmwithyas

EDDINGTON is a slightly embellished (and hilarious) portrayal of the real hysteria, conspiracy & polarisation of America that peaked during the pandemic and remains prevalent.

The first good film to emerge out of the pandemic and a glimpse at how batshit crazy that era was.

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@DonaldClarke63

Look, EDDINGTON is definitely a bit of a troll. And folk of all politics stripes will duly get angry at it. But it also a mischievously Swiftian satire on America’s (and our) addiction to discontent. Count me as a fan. #Cannes2025

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@firstshowing

Eddington - Hmmm not so sure. It's a clever attempt at satire and mocking the right wing jackasses of America but fails to be truly hard hitting or provocative enough to shake anything up. Competent filmmaking but once again too safe in its portrayal of problems. #Cannes2025

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@dancindanonfilm

Ari Aster’s COVID-era satire EDDINGTON is his most straightforward film to date, a sniper-accurate vision of America at its most broken. People are gonna have a LOT of feelings about how on-the-nose it is, but it lands a high percentage of its hits. #Cannes2025

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@bamfpire

Eddington was jam-packed full of plot twists and about as subtle as a sledgehammer. It will be polarizing, but despite some of the extremes it goes to, it reminds me of everything I felt during the height of COVID. It's a movie you won't be able to stop talking about. (7/10)

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@thomas_page

EDDINGTON rips. Small town America painted as a Bosch hellscape of grievances and identity politics, fuelled by the dissolution of truth. Incredibly ambitious — even more so than BEAU — and ripe for misreading. I hope Ari Aster is braced for the storm ahead.

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@filmfest_ca

EDDINGTON - Ari Aster's acidic, unrelenting vivisection of American culture, from guns to protests to mask mandates and signalled virtues, it's an excoriation and the most bleak kd satires, easily eschewed by same audience that it Mick's that it's bred to entice. #cannes2025

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@812filmreviews

It used to be that every white male wanted to write the next great American novel and now it’s every white male filmmaker wants to make the next great “provocative” movie, and it’s tiring.

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@ZakRed567

Eddington is a really good modern western styled recreation of Covid affecting a small town where you see Ari Aster making fun of the anti-vaccine crowd. It’s the least horror of his movies but in many ways may be the most horrific in how it accurately portrays the ignorance of both the tiktok generation and the politicians that take advantage of misinformation and deceit and become government elects based on those lies.

It doesn’t really hold back in its madness. Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal create a weirdly homoerotic rivalry that will make you laugh as Ari pokes fun at the protests of 2020. A very American movie. Emma Stone was fun but not in it enough. Austin Butler will surprise you. Lots of gunshots. #Cannes2025

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