★★★★ – BBC. During the Covid pandemic, a smalltown sheriff and local mayor are drawn into a public standoff that threatens to ignite community division. Provocative neo-western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Pedro Pascal.
"★★★★ – a brilliant, blood-soaked skewering of modern America" – Independent
★★★★ – BBC
★★★★ – Flickering Myth
At the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the small New Mexico town of Eddington is confronted with the consequences of global lockdown. As residents retreat into their homes, the sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and local mayor (Pedro Pascal) are drawn into a ferocious public stand-off that threatens to ignite a powder-keg of political tension beneath the town.
A searing neo-Western from provocateur director Ari Aster (Midsommar) that trenchantly skewers the social turmoil of our times.
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