Eddington
A24 | Release Date: July 18, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
19
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyAug 20, 2025
Full of sound and fury, signifying something. If only we knew what that was. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJul 24, 2025
It’s a jumbled, intriguing, inconsistent mess — and yes, it is uncomfortable by design. Read full review
60
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannMay 18, 2025
At times, it can be bitterly hysterical, with Aster, who also wrote the film, further flexing his comedic muscles after his previous film with Phoenix. On the other hand, Eddington can be almost too on-the-nose, knicking the surface of complex issues but pulling the blade away before it can really draw blood. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 17, 2025
If this wigged-out modern Western doesn’t quite work, it’s at the very least a cry of vexation over what our country, messy at the best of times, has become, thanks to a virus that found its way not just into our lungs, but into our very lifeblood. Dr. Aster has listened in on America’s heartbeat; the diagnosis is that we’re basically a mess. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMay 17, 2025
No genre really makes more sense for this moment than horror — except, maybe, for black comedy, and Aster’s bracingly nasty but centerless new film offers plenty of both. Read full review
60
Vanity FairRichard LawsonMay 16, 2025
Eddington gradually shifts away from the hyper topical and into a despairing, bleakly amusing look at an America prone to violent fantasy and deed, entrenched in escalating conflict, caught in a terrible entropy. When Aster finally knuckles down and ramps up the action, Eddington takes strange flight. Read full review
58
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 18, 2025
The character’s thinly sketched beliefs combined with Phoenix’s uncharacteristically vague performance keep him constantly at arm’s reach. We never really get into his head, which makes his eventual downfall (or Falling Down) feel both nihilistic and dramatically undercharged. Read full review
55
LooperDominic GriffinJul 18, 2025
Eddington is a fascinating film whose high points are sure to grow in the public estimation with the distance of time, but whose murky themes and punishing runtime have more in common with advanced torture tactics than with traditional cinematic expression. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 21, 2025
Unfortunately, for all its button-pushing, the movie's biggest offense is that it is often tedious and meandering and it takes at least 30 minutes too long to cross the finish line. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 18, 2025
It’s kind of a mess, but an ambitious one hitting on themes Aster’s fans will recognize as his favorites. And as Aster scores points on conspiracy-obsessed America, cultish America, gun-fetishizing America, virtue signalling America and the limits of “back the blue,” he’s pretty much earned the right to be heard out, if not the benefit of the doubt. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJul 17, 2025
For all that “Eddington” variously concerns itself with politics and conspiracy theories and violence and the Western landscape, what it’s really about is social media. Read full review
50
The Associated PressLindsey BahrJul 14, 2025
Five years after we just went through (at least a lot of) this, “Eddington” somehow seems both too late and too soon, especially when it offers so little wisdom or insight beyond a vision of hopelessness. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 16, 2025
In certain moments, the film’s absurdism recalls that era’s paranoia and volcanic anger, but too often Aster overshoots the mark, collecting the period’s signature elements without finding much that is smart to say about them. Read full review
40
The New YorkerRichard BrodySep 8, 2025
Aster is so intent on using ripped-from-the-headlines events that he fails to make proper use of them, and ends up cynically debasing them all. Read full review
40
The New YorkerJustin ChangJul 18, 2025
Really, the problem with Eddington is not that Aster judges his characters. It’s that he barely finds them interesting enough to judge, and his boredom proves infectious. Read full review
40
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaMay 20, 2025
With Eddington, Ari Aster tries his hand at political satire and turns in his first bad movie. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMay 16, 2025
It’s bloated, self-indulgent, rambling, crazily ambitious and commendably odd, but so overstuffed it becomes a lethal combination of baffling and boring. Read full review
40
The TimesKevin MaherMay 16, 2025
It’s an ambitious contemporary western shot last year yet set in the summer of 2020, and ostensibly aims, in almost every scene, to analyse and ridicule the political obsessions and digital neuroses that dominated that moment. And, well, it’s quite the mess. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 16, 2025
There is no accumulation of drama or tension or intellectual revelation and the setpiece shootout is ultimately valueless. What exactly is it saying that we didn’t know already? The wait for Aster to recover his directorial form goes on. Read full review
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