In Ari Aster’s ambitious 2023 flop, Beau Is Afraid, the filmmaker transmuted his feverish, anxiety-choked psyche into a hellscape of constant external threats. Beau, played hapless and pitiable ...

Time and time again, Aster has ensured his films register mentally, emotionally, and, above all else, eternally. Let's look at every film he's made so far. At the time of this film's release, Ari ...

'Eddington' cinematographer Darius Khondji worked with writer/director Ari Aster for the first time on the modern western.

Undeterred by the perceived unapproachability of “Beau is Afraid” — a uniquely personal (?) film about an anxious man’s relationship to his overbearing mother — Aster is again begging to ...

Since Aster made “Eddington” — it was shot in 2024 — the second administration of President Donald Trump has ushered in a new political reality that Aster acknowledges would have reshaped ...

Joaquin Phoenix says a director once pissed him off by dissing him as a character actor.

Phoenix’s latest is “Eddington,” a COVID-era Western from his “Beau Is Afraid” writer-director Ari Aster. Similar to their last collaboration, “Eddington” is proving divisive among ...

Before Eddington, Joaquin Phoenix and Ari Aster teamed up for Beau is Afraid, which is a bold piece of provocative modern filmmaking.

Ari Aster's “Eddington,” appropriately enough, has been divisive.

Ari Aster and A24's black comedy, Eddington, boasts strong performances, visuals, and social commentary, but it struggles to distill all the chaos of the pandemic into one film.

Universal Pictures’ “Jurassic World: Rebirth” came in second this weekend, with $23.4 million in its third week of release.