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Movie reviews: Eddington, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Smurfs
Writer/director Ari Aster's milieu is madness, so on that level he might seem to be the ideal filmmaker to tackle the collective freak-out we endured in the COVID spring of 2020
Eddington Smurfs Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Eddington Writer/director Ari Aster's milieu is madness ( Hereditary , Midsommar , Beau Is Afraid ), so on that level he might seem to be the ideal filmmaker to tackle the collective freak-out we endured in the COVID spring of 2020—except maybe we're still too close to those events for them to be processed as anything but a swirl of chaos.
The premise focuses on a small New Mexico town called Eddington, where tensions over issues like mask mandates and racial justice manifest in the contest for mayor between the incumbent Ted Garcia (Pedro…
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