Ari Aster is one of my favorite filmmakers working today. I believe he is responsible for not just some of the best A24 horror movies yet, but some of the absolute best horror movies in recent memory with 2018’s Hereditary, 2019’s Midsommar, and even Beau is Afraid, which was not everyone’s bag, but was my favorite film of 2023.

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Ari Aster explains the thinking behind the ending of 'Eddington,' his movie about a small town in crisis at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ari Aster's “Eddington,” appropriately enough, has been divisive. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Aster’s film has one of the most polarizing releases of the year.

Eddington is, I think, less about political axe grinding, or even point making, and more about what it feels like to have all the noise of the world descend upon you at once. It is essentially a horror-comedy about the whole of the internet arriving in a small town seemingly in a single day.

I've had mixed feelings about Ari Aster's previous movies, but Eddington highlights everything that makes him a great filmmaker.