Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…

Best Films of 2025
#6. Eddington

Writer/director Ari Aster’s Eddington is the first film to tackle the insanity of America in 2020 — that discombobulating period when anti-COVID measures collided with the post-George Floyd social justice movement. The movie interrogates both sides of a country divided right down the middle and does so with humor, smarts, and a healthy dose of cynicism.

Some liberals disliked the film because it pokes fun at young social justice warriors and those who were overly cautious about COVID. But to the extent that Eddington takes sides, I see the more biting satire aimed at the right. This is a movie in which a planeload of heavily armed ANTIFA crisis actors descend on the town like something out of a Fox News fever dream.

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