Stop Your Doomscroll (and Watch Ari Aster’s Instead)

Well, 2020 definitely was certainly horrific. And if anybody was going to make the first retrospective horror movie about lockdown, a freakazoid (complimentary) like Ari Aster would do it. Aster’s new movie Eddington travels back to a time when black squares ruled Instagram. The majority of the trailer, out April 14, is someone else’s doomscroll. Emma Stone appears, mysteriously denying her husband’s “announcement,” Pedro Pescal plays a mayor running for re-election amid the pandemic, and Joaquin Phoenix is a ‘“Law and Order’ sheriff” shown attacking protesters “in a town rocked by murders.” There’s murders, too? We have enough trauma with just lockdown, Mr. Aster. No need to add more. Then, at the end, the film pulls out to reveal we were following that very sheriff’s screen time as he lay awake in bed.

Eddington will premiere in competition at Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13 to 24. It stars Phoenix, Pascal, and Stone, alongside Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, and Micheal Ward. For those of us who can’t make it to the Riviera, A24 is releasing the film on July 18.

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