Lamar Reviews - "Eddington" (Airdate 7/25/2025)

Lamar Reviews - "Eddington" (Airdate 7/25/2025)

If you have had a good nights rest, and you are
feeling great, with everything going your way, the
birds are chirping, you are glad to be alive and you
know for sure nothing can bring you down,…..I
promise you the movie Eddington can! The first
warning sign should have been the 5 to 7 minute
standing ovation it got at the Cannes Film Festival.
After all the last Joaquin Phoenix, Joker: Folie a
Deux, got 11 minutes for that one. How did that
work out? Them people love sucky movies.
This is no lightweight cast. Joaquin Phoenix,
Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler, to
name a few. These are heavy hitters, I know
Phoenix will do anything, Irrational Man,
Napoleon, that interview in 2009 with David
Letterman. Austin Butler is pretty new, probably
didn’t know any better, but Emma Stone, and
Pedro Pascal, come on!!
This is supposed to be, according to director Ari
Aster, a comic contemporary Western. City
Slickers and Blazing Saddles are comic Westerns,

and Eddington ain’t nothing like that. The only
laughs are the extremely uncomfortable ones, and
they are few and far between.
This is not a movie you see to get away from
reality, this is a movie that forces you to relive the
worst parts of the 2020 pandemic. There is no fun
here, only bad memories.
The movie opens with a homeless man aimlessly
walking towards town mumbling to himself. That is
how I left the movie when it was over.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Joe Cross the Sheriff of a
small desert town in New Mexico called
Eddington. He is a very soft-spoken guy that is
married to Louise, played by Emma Stone. Louise
has more problems than she can handle, and her
mother Dawn, played by Deirdre O’Connell, who is
living with her and Joe, is not helping at all.
Sheriff Cross is at odds with Mayor Ted Garcia,
played by Pedro Pascal, over dealing with the
pandemic. They basically hate each other’s guts.
Garcia is up for re-election and Sheriff Cross
decides to throw his hat in the ring.

The movie is 2 and a half long, Rated R for one
scene of graphic nudity.
After more than almost an hour and a half of paint
drying and snail races, I’m hoping to have to go to
the bathroom. I totally understand what happens
in a bathroom, I got no idea of what is going on in
that boring movie! Something finally happens and
everything goes crazy and violent, and then it
ends, fades to black, then comes back to what
must be a few months later, and it makes even
less sense. This is one of those movies that
people see in their own way and decide from
themselves what it means.
Here is what it means for me. Joaquin Phoenix
poured his heart and soul into this role, just like he
does every role he plays. The fact that I was
confused and felt worse when I left the movie
wasn’t his fault, he did a great job of acting out
what the script said. It is writer/director Ari Aster
fault, he wrote it.
My Score: 2 Buds, an actor can’t make KerryGold
butter out of what’s in a litterbox.