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The film premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation reported to run around five to six minutes and left a visibly emotional Joaquin Phoenix in tears, even as the reviews that followed split critics almost down the middle.
Eddington marks the second consecutive collaboration between Ari Aster and Phoenix, following the anxiety-drenched Beau Is Afraid, and Aster has described it as an attempt to capture a moment when Americans lost their grip on any shared sense of reality during the pandemic.
Aster set the entire story in the tense weeks of May 2020, weaving lockdown friction, viral misinformation, and social-media outrage directly into the plot so that the town's escalating conflict mirrors the way online life curdled real-world relationships that year.

Eddington is writer-director Ari Aster's fourth feature, a sprawling neo-Western black comedy released by A24 that trades the domestic dread of Hereditary and Midsommar for the wide-open anxiety of the American Southwest. Set in the fictional small town of Eddington, New Mexico in May 2020, at the disorienting height of the pandemic, the film uses a local feud to dissect a country coming apart at the seams — a place where every argument is refracted through social media, conspiracy, and mutual suspicion.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe Cross, the town's beleaguered sheriff, whose simmering grudge against the slick, progressive mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) escalates into a chaotic and increasingly violent campaign for the mayor's office. Emma Stone plays Joe's fragile wife, with Austin Butler as a magnetic online guru who worms his way into their lives, and Luke Grimes and Deirdre O'Connell rounding out the ensemble. What begins as satire curdles, over the film's length, into something far darker and more unnerving.
Eddington premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it drew a lengthy standing ovation and sharply divided critics between those who hailed its ambition and those who found its provocations exhausting. It became one of the most debated releases of the year, a lightning rod for arguments about how — or whether — cinema should depict the pandemic era. Eddington is streaming on HBO Max.
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