Eddington – 5

The first film I’ve seen to baldly tackle the political dysfunction/divide/disaster that is the American fringe today, hitting bang-bang-bang on Covid masks, Black Lives Matter, gun culture, cults, indigenous rights, political distortion–what have I left out? Perhaps in trying to do too much, the plot is full of unresolved red herrings and relies on mysterious forces to reach its conclusion. It also would have helped if we could have understood anything Joaquin Phoenix’s lead character was mumbling.