Cannes 2025: First Reactions to Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON
The Cannes Film Festival got underway earlier this week, and reactions to some of the highly-anticipated world premieres are starting to arrive. Today marked the premiere of EDDINGTON, which will be distributed by A24 later in the summer.
From writer-director Ari Aster comes a modern Western and paranoid thriller set in the American Southwest during the tumultuous summer of 2020. Isolated and sheltered in place, in a global pandemic, a nation under pressure found itself sifting reality through the haze of social media and lost its collective mind.
Eddington stars Joaquin Phoenix as small-town sheriff Joe Cross, who runs for mayor when progressive incumbent Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) attempts to modernize their dusty hamlet by attracting a new artificial-intelligence data center. Aster’s fourth feature takes the form of a classic showdown between two opposing forces over the future of Eddington, New Mexico (population 2,345), as spiraling conspiracies and standoffs derail a citizenry pushed to the brink.
In addition to Phoenix and Pascal, the film also stars Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone. A24 will release the film nationwide on July 18th, 2025. You can find the film on our In Theaters calendar.
Here are the first reactions to Eddington after today’s Cannes premiere:
Here's the official teaser trailer:
First reactions to Eddington…