Eddington, the latest film from Hereditary director Ari Aster, is a dark comedy about COVID-fueled chaos in a fictional New Mexico town. The film wades into hot-button topics regarding police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, AI investment, and mask mandates, among others. Ari Aster is asking for trouble with Eddington.

Ari Aster and the Museum of the Moving Image will host an 'Eddington'-inspired film series with Aster in attendance.

Aster sat down with The A.V. Club after a screening of Eddington at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to talk about the terrifying future we’re all barreling towards. Eddington and Beau Is Afraid both seem like films where you woke up in a cold sweat and needed to write down what your brain had conjured up.

Technically, Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix), the sheriff of Eddington, New Mexico, has not actually been diagnosed, at least not to his face. Over the course of the movie’s second half, we see him accumulate symptoms,

He's collaborated with everyone from David Fincher to the Safdies, but the Iranian-born cinematographer, most recently of "Eddington," wants them all to feel like family.

Joaquin Phoenix couldn't figure out his Eddington character, Joe Cross, until director Ari Aster did something that inadvertently unlocked the role for him.

The film takes place in May 2020 in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, and becomes a battleground when Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) clashes with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) over plans to bring an artificial intelligence data center to the community.

Ari Aster’s "Eddington" stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone, but doesn’t really know what to do with them.