From Cousins Beach to haunted high-rises to mushroom-shaped villages, this weekend's picks explore secrets, scars and the price of survival.

In Ari Aster’s dark comedy, Joaquin Phoenix plays the sheriff of a New Mexico town riven by political clashes and pandemic anxieties.

As Eddington makes its theatrical debut this Friday, fans are already eager to know when the movie will get its digital and streaming release dates. This black-comedy movie is the latest offering from Ari Aster,

Ari Aster's Eddington is bound to be a divisive and controversial movie, especially when it comes to the arrival of the film's mysterious villains.

And, it seems that despite movie critics generally loving Aster's films (he directed Midsommar ), the reviews for Eddington are less than stellar. Right now, the film holds a 67 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which is just enough for the movie to be considered "fresh."

The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down the center of a road running through an empty Western town. He’s ranting and incoherently raving as he climbs a craggy hill silhouetted against a twilight sky. He gazes, or maybe glares, out at the town below.

Imperfect and overlong, Ari Aster's fourth feature ends up as a neat snapshot of the COVID years, as well as a sly missile aimed at a lie we’ve all been sold...View on euronews

A sheriff, a mayor and a virus walk into a bar in Ari Aster’s bleak and brain-sick satire that stars a dueling Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.