'Eddington' Is Full of Conspiracy Theories but It's Not About Jews. Or Is It?

'Eddington' is full of conspiracy theories but it's not about Jews. Or is it?

Spoilers to follow:  There are no Jews in Eddington, the fictional small town in New Mexico and the namesake of Ari Aster’s latest film — a violent, rollicking western set in May 2020. There are, however, conspiracy theories. Tons of them. Lab leaks, Antifa, the deep state, Q-Anon — the citizens of Eddington are swimming in paranoia, and the common thread that connects all of their theories is antisemitic conspiracy. To be clear, Eddington, writ…

Data centers, drought, and dispossession: The real nightmares in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’

The film “Eddington” opens at night as Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) sits in his Chevy Tahoe on the edge of a New Mexico desert. On duty, he’s bathed in blue light, watching YouTube: a video on how to convince your spouse to want a child. More cops pull up, tribal police from the fictional Santa Lupe Pueblo, and tell him a mask mandate is active on their land. Joe pulls his mask up over his nose until they leave, then immediately yanks it …

Eddington Is a Tragic Masterpiece of the 2020s

I did myself no favors by checking to see what critics are saying about Ari Aster’s new film, Eddington, a movie that could go down as something like our generation’s Network or even Dr. Strangelove. “Eddington is so solemnly goofy that its vision of polarized America might as well not be a satire,” says Armond […]

Ari Aster Dissects the Meaning of 'Eddington'

My group threads have been flying off for the last few weeks, after I texted all my friends that Eddington was one of the three best movies of the year, and probably my favorite. This Western comedy is incredibly divisive, and a lot of people are upset at trying to discover what it all means. Well, I have my own opinions on that, but I think it's a better idea to get them straight from Aris Aster himself. Let's dive in. The Meaning of 'Eddington…