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Everything Everywhere All at Once is the multiverse movie to end all multiverse movies. Following Evelyn Wang, a Chinese immigrant who is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. This film is hilarious, overstimulating, unique, stylistic, existential, life-affirming and deeply impactful, with every filmmaking aspect operating at a consistent masterclass level. Probably one of the most spectacularly fun theater experiences I've ever had. You can feel every piece of cinema which inspired this film, just as well as you can feel all of the future filmmakers who will be inspired by it, and we're likely to see its influence on the cinematic craft for decades to come. For the massive scope of the film, Everything Everywhere never forgets the human element which drives the film, a deeply profound and infinitely relatable story about the paths we take, and the importance of the things which matter in our lives over that which could have mattered. It's transcending. You will laugh, you'll probably cry. Most of my theater was doing both. If you're ever going to take a recommendation of mine, make it this. My sympathies for anyone who doesn't get to see this in a theater.

$125 million, dozens of rewrites and reshoots, tons of star power, and it hits the ground like wet cheese.

I live in Parkland, FL. My community was directly affected by the worst school shooting since columbine which happened just up the road from me. That being said, I love dark, edgy and provocative films that push boundaries, test morality, etc. I think a thriller set during a school shooting can totally be a fantastic and nail biting experience if done well. But this is garbage. Any and all politics and/or beliefs aside, it's just a genuinely awful movie. From nobody outside the cafeteria hearing a van plummet through a wall with gunfire, to absolutely atrocious writing and dialogue, to the dull and obnoxious shooters, to an hour long police response time, I just couldn't take a single moment seriously. Not a single redeemable aspect. The worst film I'm going to see all year and it's only January.