Everything Everywhere All at Once
A24 | Release Date: March 25, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 55 Critic Reviews
Positive:
49
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
ABC NewsPeter TraversMay 20, 2022
The Daniels and their wow of a star Michelle Yeoh turn this visionary absurdist comedy into a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen Read full review
90
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzApr 4, 2022
It doesn’t always make sense. But it is fascinating — and fun — to watch. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMar 24, 2022
Truly, Everything Everywhere All at Once does one thing: exactly what the title promises. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyMar 31, 2022
This is movie as inundation. It’s daring, dashing, often delirious — except that the writer-director team of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (the Daniels, as they like to bill themselves) keeps the delirium under just enough control. Read full review
80
CNNBrian LowryApr 8, 2022
Strange, surreal and unexpectedly sentimental, Everything Everywhere All at Once is genuinely and wildly original -- the kung fu/science fiction/metaphysical action comedy that you didn't know you needed, but just might love. Read full review
91
ColliderRoss BonaimeMar 31, 2022
Daniels explores the hopelessness of depression, the little miracles that truly make life worthwhile, how acts of kindness can be an extraordinary asset, and—most fitting to this film—how it’s OK to be a mess. Read full review
100
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonMar 24, 2022
Amid all the razor-thin editing, constantly shifting film stocks and styles, and purposefully opaque worldbuilding lies a curiously personal, universal story about the overwhelming noise of the world, and how impossible it is to deal with it. Read full review
100
EmpireBen TravisMay 9, 2022
A pure firework display of technical bravado, wild invention, emotional storytelling, comedic genius, action mastery and outstanding performances, Everything Everywhere All At Once is everything cinema was invented for. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattMar 15, 2022
The actors, particularly the inexhaustible Yeoh, do much of the work to ground what often feels, with its dream logic and layer-cake Inception feints, like a coded story whose secret key you haven't been invited to share. Read full review
90
Film ThreatAlan NgMar 28, 2022
There is so much to love about the film. Its greatest achievement is its screenplay, which is very dense. Nothing is wasted — not a single side character, joke, gag, or plot point. Every element serves a purpose to the overall story. Read full review
100
IGNRafael MotamayorMar 13, 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a complex film that encompasses a variety of subjects, but it does justice to each of them with a carefully written script, marvelous performances, and a healthy dose of bizarre humor to counter its bleak story. Michelle Yeoh in particular gives a powerhouse performance in a story that puts a fresh, welcome spin on the idea of the multiverse. Read full review
100
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 11, 2022
Here is an orgiastic work of slaphappy genius that doesn’t operate like a narrative film so much as a particle accelerator — or maybe a cosmic washing machine — that two psychotic 12-year-olds designed in the hopes of reconciling the anxiety of what our lives could be with the beauty of what they are. Read full review
88
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMar 28, 2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once is at once a showcase for one of the world’s greatest acting talents and a manic meditation on reality, regret, and the richness of family bonds. It’s a movie that’s difficult to describe, but easy to love. Read full review
100
Little White LiesWeiting LiuMay 9, 2022
The film’s advocate for kindness amidst the zeitgeist generations’ omnipresent nihilism is heartfelt and hard-earned – and not without diving deep first into the dark, sticky terrains of our morals and minds. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 24, 2022
Crammed with ideas, jokes, laments, non sequiturs and some terrific actors you’ve seen before (if not nearly enough), the movie comes at you like a warm hug wrapped in a kung fu chop: It’s both a sweet, sentimental story about a Chinese American family and a wild, maximalist sensory assault. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 18, 2022
For all its attempts at delivering a heartfelt message, the finale is more something that unravels than resolves. But Everything Everywhere All at Once is still something to see, something that demands to be seen in a cinema, mouth agape at the wonders playing out on the huge wall — the bigger the IMAX the better — in front of you. Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMar 29, 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once may be a kaleidoscopic fantasy battle across space, time, genres, and emotions, but it’s an incredibly moving family drama first. Read full review
75
ObserverEmily ZemlerMar 28, 2022
Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the movie is an explosion of creative weirdness that is equal parts exhilarating and overwhelming. Read full review
100
Original-CinKaren GordonMar 30, 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a sci-fi/fantasy/martial arts action movie on steroids: a cuckoo-bananas story about life and love and family and humanity and a bunch of other things… all at once. Read full review
92
Paste MagazineAurora AmidonMar 14, 2022
It’s simply up to the viewer to relinquish control, strap into the rollercoaster seat and trust that the ride will take them somewhere transcendent. And it does. Read full review
95
PolygonTasha RobinsonApr 1, 2022
Everything Everywhere’s multiverse is a remarkably flexible metaphor. It’s equally suitable for expressing some common frustrations the audience may relate to, about botched choices and wasted opportunity. But it’s just as suited for setting up a series of ridiculously kickass action sequences where literally anything is possible, because the characters aren’t bound by reality or causality. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliApr 8, 2022
Although it runs too long, it’s nevertheless an enjoyable and satisfying romp through the lives of one woman who makes “being the worst of her selves” an asset. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMarya E. GatesMar 12, 2022
Yeoh is the anchor of the film, given a role that showcases her wide range of talents, from her fine martial art skills to her superb comic timing to her ability to excavate endless depths of rich human emotion often just from a glance or a reaction. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsApr 1, 2022
It’s comically postmodern to the point of feeling almost retro, which also describes Everything Everywhere’s sense of action, its enriched sense of comedy colliding violence, practical materials (like fanny packs) taking their ranks amid the physically superhuman feats of choreography — a mix many of us rightly associate with Jackie Chan. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 21, 2022
Without question, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is a remarkable piece of work, one of the most original and creative films of the past couple of years. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 11, 2022
Ultimately, though, Everything Everywhere is best appreciated for its grandiose ambitions, bombarding the viewer with its frenetic style while telling a poignant story about an older woman trying to make peace with her not-so-wonderful life. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineDerek SmithMar 23, 2022
The film works magic by embracing excess, finding a kind of harmony and possibility within it, and reminding us of the beauty and lunacy of the human experience along the way. Read full review
100
SlashfilmJacob HallMar 12, 2022
It's impossible to describe. It's unlike anything you've ever seen. It's the best American movie in years, and certainly the best movie to hit theaters since the pandemic began. Read full review
91
The A.V. ClubJordan HoffmanMar 21, 2022
The film, which uses the gimmick of jumping between parallel universes to explore, essentially, how to be your best self, is awash in zany sci fi culs-du-sac, sly movie references, and a deranged high fructose attitude that scoffs at the idea of everything but the kitchen sink. The Daniels want infinite kitchen sinks. Read full review
88
The Associated PressJake CoyleMar 23, 2022
It’s a preposterous and tasteless ode to the messy, nonsensical struggle and bliss of being human. Read full review
85
The AtlanticDavid SimsMar 25, 2022
This film is not a grandiose tale of love transcending all, but it does find all kinds of sweet, specific ways to portray a lasting partnership. Read full review
83
The Film StageJohn FinkMar 14, 2022
It’s a film that gleefully, hilariously subverts expectations at every corner, borrowing à la music videos from pop culture, experimental film, and any corner of the universe it finds inspiration in. Read full review
87
The Film VerdictStephen DaltonJul 10, 2023
As its attention-grabbing title suggests, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a supercharged, sense-swamping, overstuffed feast of a movie. Read full review
90
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Sarah-Tai BlackApr 6, 2022
It is a film that asks audiences to take the plunge into chaos and confusion, so that we’re able to fully see the innate humanity of what remains when the dust of it all settles. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 11, 2022
This mad succession of consequence-free events, trains of activity which get cancelled by a switch to another parallel world, means that nothing is actually at stake, and the film becomes a formless splurge of Nothing Nowhere Over a Long Period of Time. Read full review
60
The GuardianCharles BramescoMar 23, 2022
However dazzling the vortexes this film shoots us through at supersonic speed may be, they still deposit us somewhere we’ve been before. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 11, 2022
Nothing if not true to its title, this frenetically plotted serve of stoner heaven is insanely imaginative and often a lot of fun. But at two hours-plus, it becomes unrelenting and wearisome. Read full review
100
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMay 13, 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once exists in the outer wilds of the imagination, in the realm of lucid dreaming and liminal spaces. It bounces off familiar representations of altered states, whether it be The Matrix or the phantasmical films of Michel Gondry, while feeling entirely unclassifiable. It’s both proudly puerile, with a running joke about butt plugs, and breathlessly sincere about the daily toil of intergenerational trauma. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyMay 11, 2022
At its core, however, this is a big-hearted family drama about acceptance and a love story between an older married couple. It falls to the terrific Yeoh to hold all the subplots and occasional comic misfires together. Read full review
100
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMar 24, 2022
The movie is a metaphysical multiverse galaxy-brain head trip, but deep down — and also right on the surface — it’s a bittersweet domestic drama, a marital comedy, a story of immigrant striving and a hurt-filled ballad of mother-daughter love. Read full review
40
The New YorkerRichard BrodyMar 24, 2022
With its bland and faux-universal life lessons that cheaply ethicalize expensive sensationalism, the film comes off as a sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Mark KermodeMay 15, 2022
The result may be a tad overlong and convolutedly overstuffed, but it made me laugh, cry and think – which is more than can be said for many a Marvel flick. Read full review
91
The PlaylistRobert DanielsMar 12, 2022
In Everything Everywhere All At Once, a dizzying and aching bit of popcorn entertainment, in fact, Yeoh has never been better. Read full review
88
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldMar 28, 2022
The night after I saw Everything Everywhere All At Once I had a dream, in which I took a journey that was chaotic and messy and strangely beautiful. I suspect that dream was heavily flavored by the movie I had just seen, which also fit that description. The dream quickly faded, as dreams do, but the movie is staying with me, turning over and over in my head like stones in a kaleidoscope, ever-shifting. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 12, 2022
I’ve rarely felt more impaled on the fence by a film, because, exactly as promised, it’s everything at once – good and not good; fresh yet still a formula; cramped, strenuous, full to the brim. Read full review
81
TheWrapRobert AbeleMar 11, 2022
The Daniels are unusually present ringmasters here, eschewing the flippancy that marred their splashy quirk-quake “Swiss Army Man” for a more big-feeling anarchic escapism. In their nifty code-switching, we-all-contain-multitudes metaphor, they’ve concocted something that feels genuinely attuned to our modern anxieties, but also embracing of our coping mechanisms. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekApr 7, 2022
Everything Everywhere is fringey and wayward, too often frenetic only for craziness’ sake. But Yeoh anchors it. When the story around her flails, she gives you plenty to hang onto. Read full review
80
Time OutDan JolinMay 4, 2022
The concept is a doozy, ripe with comedic juice and packed with visual thrills. Read full review
80
Total FilmKevin HarleyMay 11, 2022
Come for the wild ideas, stay for the warm wisdom in the Daniels’ heartfelt carnival of chaos. Yeoh aces every curveball. Read full review
91
UproxxVince ManciniApr 13, 2022
What makes Everything Everywhere work is not that it’s zany, it’s that it actually finds a purpose for its zaniness, or least tries to. The Daniels are provocateurs, brilliant technical filmmakers. More importantly, they actually strive not to be full of shit. God bless them. Read full review
88
USA TodayBrian TruittApr 6, 2022
Everything Everywhere is an action-packed club sandwich of weird, but also a splendidly human experience to cherish. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeMar 11, 2022
Everything Everywhere is ultimately too much of a good thing, a novel idea driven to the point of exhaustion. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalAmy NicholsonMar 24, 2022
Despite their wundercabinet of delights, the filmmakers most want to celebrate human beings in all their contradictions. Each of us, the movie says, is capable of everything. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMar 29, 2022
What this movie could use a little more of is the rigor and self-discipline to pull off all the imagination and originality in a way that does more than leave you gobsmacked. Read full review
90
We Got This CoveredOluwatayo AdewoleMay 17, 2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once understands that the world is infinitely big and scary, and that we often feel like we are the worst versions of ourselves. And yet, it manages to effectively advocate for us to keep going, to seek the connections and moments that make life worth it. Read full review
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