I am a much better human being than you.

Eddington — 3.5/5

Ah, we are in the age of the apolitical political thrillers. "Both sides are a little stupid," says our centrist artist leaders, Ari Aster, Emerald Fennell, Paul Thomas Anderson. They're not wrong, they're just not helpful. I think this movie is both better and worse than 'One Battle After Another.' Better in that it's a more compelling build-up of interconnected parts, worse in that I can't really rationalize what it's building up to. Easily the best "Covid-era" movie made thus far (that I've seen), a clear signpost that "post-Covid" is our new "post-9/11" traumatic time-based movie marker. One united us against a theoretical and fictional common enemy to turn our hate towards, while this one just shows us how much we hate each other. And no matter what you do, it's wrong. I don't know what to do with that. Again, it's not helpful.