Overview

• A24 released Eddington exclusively in theaters on July 18, with no immediate streaming date confirmed under its HBO Max licensing deal.
• The film’s $4 million domestic opening markedly trails its estimated $35–50 million production cost.
• It earned mixed reception among critics and viewers, holding a 67% critics’ score, 64% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and a C+ CinemaScore grade.
• Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler headline Ari Aster’s modern Western satire set during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The narrative frames a violent feud over masking mandates in a fictional New Mexico town and underscores social media polarization and Big Tech’s looming influence through a data-center subplot.