"It's a film that never feels neutered or held back, and as such it lingers in the mind for days afterward."
— Bill Bria, Slashfilm
"Ari Aster transforms everyday American insanity into one of the most artistically complete and compulsively watchable doom-scrolls of the year."
— Tomris Laffly, Elle
"[Aster] wants to show us the really big picture, and while “Eddington” isn’t a horror movie, it puts its finger on a kind of madness you’ll recognize with a tremor."
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety
"Aster has given us another movie that chills you, unnerves you and makes you want to crawl out of your skin. You just wish this one didn’t feel so close to being nonfiction."
— David Fear, Rolling Stone
"This is Aster’s funniest film to date, and makes use of an ever expanding and shifting cast to dot the 150-minute runtime with well-observed comic details and visual payoffs."
— Sophie Monks Kaufman, Independent (UK)
"With Joaquin Phoenix at the height of his abilities, Eddington is, if you look close enough, just as, if not more terrifying than anything Paimon or a Swedish cult could ever unleash."
— Emma Kiely, Collider
"Its low-level strangeness jumps to surreal and gory heights – and it keeps going higher until it hits a peak of gonzo high-adrenaline fun that leaves you reeling and breathless."
— Nicholas Barber, BBC
"Phoenix, as ever, commits to the bit and then some, and he keeps his gallon-hat sporting tinpot demagogue anchored with enough downhome charm to keep you second-guessing his motives."
— David Jenkins, Little White Lies
"Aster’s Risqué Fantasia on National Themes begins as a surprisingly genteel send-up of pandemic-era fever-dreams before finding more audacious (and satisfying) footing by letting loose to fully embody that mania."
— Ben Croll, TheWrap
"More conventional than any of Aster’s previous work, Eddington is also more rigorous and explicit in its political engagement — the work of a maturing filmmaker eager to make it clear that his dark and scathing sense of humor is anything but an empty provocation."
— Elena Lazic, The Playlist
"Excoriating and exhilarating in equal measure, it is the first truly great movie to deal explicitly with the unique madness and malice that the global pandemic revealed, a kind of touchstone for a time and place that with only a few years remove feels at once as fictional and otherworldly as a sci-fi novel, and at the same time the very real-world harbinger of the political shifts that proceeded."
— Jason Gorber, Paste Magazine
