Eddington (2025)

Directed by

Ari Aster

Genre

drama film, comedy film, Western film, horror film, crime film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 28m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 854 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A few months in 2020, a New Mexico town gets caught in a messy election between its sheriff and mayor. The film watches how the campaign stirs up existing tensions and chaos in the community.

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What happens

Eddington is a 2025 American satirical neo-Western thriller film written and directed by Ari Aster, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone. Set in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd protests, the film examines the political and social turmoil in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico caused by the contested mayoral election fought between Sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pascal). The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2025, and was released in theaters by A24 on July 18, 2025. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, grossing only $13.7 million worldwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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