A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but in its early days as a distributor, it made most of its money from elevated horror films like Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar. Over a decade in, the ambitions of A24 and Aster have expanded beyond genre film. But for both, the more recent results have been mixed.

Eddington will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. in theaters on Friday, July 18. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. The Eddington movie is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.

When Ari Aster went to his friends’ homes for childhood sleepovers, his dread would escalate as the situation became clear: These people were too wholesome. They said devoted things to one another and sat down for dutiful family dinners.

Gia Coppola, Mark Ruffalo, Ari Aster and Brady Corbet Help Drive Audiences to Rome's Cinema in Piazza Screenings

Eddington is Ari Aster's latest film, but why is its Rotten Tomatoes score so much lower compared to his highest movies, Hereditary and Midsommar?

At 39, the American director is tapping into a vein of contemporary nihilism, where the grotesque and the outrageous overlap amid the terrifying spectacle of the Trump era.

Writer-director Ari Aster's fiendishly funny film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal as a sheriff and mayor on politically opposing sides in a well-off community during the summer of 2020. "'Eddington' has something to offend (or annoy) just about everybody,