Everything Everywhere All at Once
Academy Award × 7
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An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
What critics thought
Broadly acclaimed on release and enduringly popular with audiences, the film won over most critics with its maximalist multiverse chaos, its thematic depth around immigrant identity and intergenerational pain, and above all Michelle Yeoh's career-best central performance. The minority dissent is pointed: a handful of prominent critics found the relentless sensory overload more exhausting than exhilarating, and questioned whether the film's emotional sincerity or its multiverse mechanics were as sophisticated as admirers claimed.
“orgiastic work of slaphappy genius”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
“Yeoh is the anchor of the film, given a role that showcases her wide range of talents, from her fine martial art skills to her superb comic timing to her ability to excavate endless depths of rich human emotion, often just from a glance or a reaction.”
Marya E. Gates·RogerEbert.com
“frenetically plotted serve of stoner heaven [that] is insanely imaginative and often a lot of fun”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
“a sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“a formless splurge of Nothing Nowhere Over a Long Period of Time”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorDaniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
StarringMichelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis
ComposerRyan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Academy Award × 7
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
What critics thought
Broadly acclaimed on release and enduringly popular with audiences, the film won over most critics with its maximalist multiverse chaos, its thematic depth around immigrant identity and intergenerational pain, and above all Michelle Yeoh's career-best central performance. The minority dissent is pointed: a handful of prominent critics found the relentless sensory overload more exhausting than exhilarating, and questioned whether the film's emotional sincerity or its multiverse mechanics were as sophisticated as admirers claimed.
“orgiastic work of slaphappy genius”
David Ehrlich·IndieWire
“Yeoh is the anchor of the film, given a role that showcases her wide range of talents, from her fine martial art skills to her superb comic timing to her ability to excavate endless depths of rich human emotion, often just from a glance or a reaction.”
Marya E. Gates·RogerEbert.com
“frenetically plotted serve of stoner heaven [that] is insanely imaginative and often a lot of fun”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
“a sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“a formless splurge of Nothing Nowhere Over a Long Period of Time”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorDaniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
StarringMichelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis
ComposerRyan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang
Rent/Purchase