Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season's most talked-about movies continues ...

Ari Aster may have a reputation as an elevated horror guy, but inside the New York-born, New Mexico-raised filmmaker behind Hereditary and Midsommar there was always a Western dying to get out. That ...

Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...

Despite a small body of work, American director Ari Aster has established a genre of his own. His debut Hereditary (2018) helped launch the term “elevated horror”, as a domestic tale of family grief ...

I dipped out of Black Mirror after Season 5. I can’t speak to what came after that, but by that point, I felt I’d gotten all I was going to get out of Charlie Brooker’s particular perspective on our ...

SPOILER WARNING: The following article may contain a few light spoilers for Eddington. If you have not yet seen the new 2025 movie, just follow the safety protocols, proceed with caution, and you ...

Films known as "period pieces" take viewers back to the Renaissance or Victorian England, for example. Are you ready for a period piece about the pandemic? Eddington takes its name from a fictional ...

The ramp-up to the celebrated indie filmmaker’s latest release, “Eddington,” reminds us just how much crushing anxiety informs his work and daily life. Take last week’s exhaustive New York Times ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It had been a long time since I tensed up at the sound of a person (actually multiple people) ...