With that, Ari Aster’s Eddington plunges us into that socially distanced spring some five years past, staging the Covid crisis as a decadent western. Roundly despised and regarded as a nuisance by the ...

Ari Aster’s films to date (Hereditary; Midsommar; Beau is Afraid) have been treacherous, cruel and rigged to explode. Eddington is his first one that doesn’t quite combust. It might seem a weird thing ...