This interview contains spoilers for, including the ending of, “Eddington,” now playing in theaters. Does anything relax Ari ...

Writer-director Ari Aster tends to end his narratives in careening mayhem that finally exhausts itself in an absurdist state ...

Covid and mask mandates are still a sensitive subject for many. Is this too much, too soon?

Eddington' cinematographer Darius Khondji worked with writer/director Ari Aster for the first time on the modern western.

Ari Aster and A24's black comedy, Eddington, boasts strong performances, visuals, and social commentary, but it struggles to ...

In this desert setting, with characters both buffoonish and evil at once, there’s a distinctly Coen brothers slant to ...

Imperfect and overlong, Ari Aster's fourth feature still ends up as a neat snapshot of the COVID years, as well as a sly ...

Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ is perfect, but it took Aster trying hundreds of songs after not getting the rights to a Jay-Z track.

The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down ...

In Ari Aster’s dark comedy, Joaquin Phoenix plays the sheriff of a New Mexico town riven by political clashes and pandemic ...

What — beyond Aster’s evident desire to tweak both sides of the political spectrum — might be going on here? Look deeper and ...

Ari Aster's “Eddington,” appropriately enough, has been divisive. Since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, ...