
‘Eddington’: Ari Aster’s Miserabilism Gets in the Way of a Promising Social Satire
Paul Haggis’ Crash (2004) is a shallow film; its characters nothing more than reductive racial tropes colliding into and screaming epithets at one another. Somehow, the film defied the odds and beat out the heavily favored Brokeback Mountain to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Two decades and one pandemic later, perhaps the time is…