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.

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.

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,

The Oscar-winning 'Joker' actor discusses the western-noir dark comedy and why his search for inspiration was "an act of desperation."

The typically stoic Luke Grimes is the most hilarious actor in the movie.The 41-year-old Yellowstone star plays Guy, a police officer in Eddington under sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and an impromptu campaign manager once Cross decides to run for mayor.

Ari Aster’s darkly comic neo-western paranoid political thriller drops us back into early Covid, in small-town New Mexico, to explore the rupture of our collective brains and the breakdown of consensus reality.

Ari Aster's 'Eddington' uses COVID-19 as a jumping-off point. It's a painful, uncomfortable watch. With Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix.

"Eddington," co-starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Luke Grimes and Micheal Ward, opens in theaters nationwide Friday, July 18.