6
… never quite nails the right tone, and it leaves the film feeling either unnecessarily cruel or weirdly glib.
The first thing you might think after watching Ari Aster’s new film Eddington is, poor old Joaquin Phoenix. Aster already put the actor through the ringer on his last film,
Something different for the director of Black Swan, Noah, Mother... an adaptation of Charlie Huston's first book about ex baseball hero (Austin Butler) who gets entangled with a bunch of
6.5
Plenty of evocative imagery and fabulous acting, but the overall experience is just a bit flat and listless.
…a true-blue(-eyed) triumph for modern mainstream cinema and an experience that can make even the biggest of projection screens feel even bigger.
Baz Luhrmann and star Austin Butler discuss the highly anticipated biopic.