Rating: R | Runtime: 148 minutes
Release Date: July 18th, 2025 (USA)
Studio: A24
Director(s): Ari Aster
Writer(s): Ari Aster

We need to free each others hearts.

Trump totally watched Ari Aster’s Eddington (perhaps at Stephen Miller’s behest, knowing how tv and movies are the only way he absorbs anything), and decided its prescient glimpse at how far “Antifa” will go wouldn’t come true in his America.

I’d say we all did the “girlfriend of Antifa’s leader” meme wrong because we weren’t using a photo of Amélie Hoeferle, but even that’s incorrect considering (and maybe this is Aster’s litmus test’s interpretative pivot point) the “Antifa terrorists” depicted were actually paramilitary pro-MAGA operatives conducting a false flag to foment more violence.

Either way, I truly don’t know what the point of this is beyond stoking fires that are already fueled to the point of never being extinguished again in my lifetime. Yes, white liberals are annoying, but I don’t know if that means they should be skewered alongside murderous Nazis as though white supremacists are another group of people we’d forget if they just shut their mouths. Aster created a cinematic vision of what it was like to be on Twitter in 2020 and the only Americans who want to experience that again are QANON conspiracists who don’t understand satire and think they’re watching a documentary.

By the time a literal dumpster fire appeared, I wondered if someone was going to jump over a shark too. After all, the lesson here is that everyone who doesn’t become a martyr will eventually sell out. Well, that and how women should give their angry white man-baby a child before he loses his goddamn mind.

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(L-R) Joaquin Phoenix & Pedro Pascal in EDDINGTON; courtesy of A24.