

In May of 2020 as COVID-19 grips the nation, a feud between Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) in small-town Eddington, New Mexico triggers deep division among this formerly united community. From writer-director Ari Aster (Beau Is Afraid) comes a bracing, black comedy revisiting the multilayered traumas of the early pandemic.
"It’s not just about the divisiveness of 2020; it’s designed to be divisive itself in 2025. To that end, even if you hate it, it’s kind of done its job."
–Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
"Ari Aster transforms everyday American insanity into one of the most artistically complete and compulsively watchable doom-scrolls of the year."
–Tomris Laffly, Elle
"Aster has given us another movie that chills you, unnerves you and makes you want to crawl out of your skin. You just wish this one didn’t feel so close to being nonfiction."
–David Fear, Rolling Stone