Brilliant “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020

Brilliant “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020

Rarely has my heart raced so fast in a movie. Eddington (2025) is nuts. Brilliantly crazy. Beyond belief. Beyond words. It might be the most politically and culturally realistic film I’ve ever seen.  It is particularly gripping because it deals with a madness that everyone tries to forget but which we dare not. It covers the strange period of the Spring and Summer of 2020, times that will go down in history. This is about as good a presentation …

REVIEW: ‘Eddington’ An astonishing satirical portrait of an America gone mad

John Podhoretz True satire is, by its very nature, emotionally unsatisfying, because the theme of satire is that there are no solutions to the low and fallen condition of human nature. Satire gives you no one to root for; every genius is a fool, every fool is a knave, and there is no transcendence to be had. The greatest satire ever written, Candide: Or Optimism, is a classic “hero’s journey,” in which the idea of heroism itself is Voltaire’s p…

Let’s Talk About the Ending of Eddington

Eddington's first two acts are pure satire about poor behaviour during the pandemic. But the film's third act raises the stakes considerably. The post Let’s Talk About the Ending of Eddington appeared first on That Shelf.