.A24's 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' (in theaters now) is a fantastical tale of self-discovery wrapped in a high-flying, cross-cutting, intriguingly conceptual action spectacle. Here's our review:
; she’s done Marvel; she’s part of the Jackie Chan Cinematic Universe. Maybe all that was missing, until this newest movie, was the one-volume omnibus, the career retrospective packed into two hours.was written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the collaborative filmmaking pair known publicly as
, and it bears the mark of their work to date, as pop-attuned and insistently creative as their music videos, with more than its share of teen-boyish comedic hijinks. It doesn’t all work; some of its bits get annoying with repetition, and its world-conquering emotional optimism drifts into limpid sentimentality. Then again, indiscretion isn’t the same as indecision.
It starts with tax problems. Evelyn runs a laundromat with her husband, Waymond , under the implacable eye of her father, Gong Gong , and without much help from the couple’s somewhat dispirited daughter, Joy , who dates women and has grown wary of her family’s reluctant acceptance of that fact. The IRS, embodied by a starkly eyebrowed Jamie Lee Curtis, is on the family’s ass; the laundromat is one small misstep from being repossessed.
It takes some intervention from another Waymond, one who isn’t of Evelyn’s reality, to school her on who she really is, what she can really do. This is part of the movie’s most insightful and moving strand. Yes, the fate of the multiverse is at stake, but what matters just as much is that this panoply of worlds is populated by Evelyns who are Evelyn, only with the benefit of other, more empowered choices.
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