EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

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Insufferable.

This overwrought, oh-so-gently racist, movie is a dog of stupidity.

You can sift through the relevance of Hollywood handing this filmic garbage seven Oscars.

Pawns.

Vomiting all of the time now.

The filmmakers attempt in vain to obfuscate their pointed barbs at America's sanctions against China, as spun through a subplot involving the IRS audit of an immigrant family's coin laundry business.

Clever, not.

A softball lesbian subplot involving Joy (Stephanie Hsu), the troubled twentysomething daughter of the film's matriarch Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), functions to give the movie a phony hook upon which to hang its muddled narrative.

Universe-jumping breaks the movie into dozens of narrative splinters that add up to, well, dozens of meaningless splinters.

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" is a steaming example of visual, sonic, and thematic noise.

Propaganda for propaganda's sake.

What fools.

Rated R. 129 mins.

ZERO STARS

Comments

[Cam]

Hi Cole! Interesting review. I'd love to discuss it with you if you'd like. I found it funny that you said that a movie with an Asian American actress as the protagonist is Chinese Propaganda. I don't think this movie is intended to be anything political like that, you might just be reading too far into it. "Struggling entrepreneur is struggling" vibes, you know? I also disagree with the lesbain subplot. I don't think it was even meant as a subplot, it just emphasized Evelyn's change through the movie.
As a Chinese American, this movie really touched me. I saw my relationship with my mother through Evelyn's relationship with joy. EEAAO captured the raw emotions of such a strained family dynamic perfectly.
The "universe jumping" may feel like it's splitting into several meaningless plots, but it's all one continuous story that follows Joy and Evelyn through the different realities.
The "visual, sonic, and thematic noise" just makes me believe you don't appreciate this kind of art. Every frame of this film is a masterpiece. The colors mesh together perfectly. The sets are beautiful. The sounds and music immerse the viewer. I understand that it may have felt like an overload, but we're watching from Evelyn's perspective; SHE felt overloaded. In EEAAO she literally breaks her brain and experiences countless lives. The "noise" was probably representative of her mental fatigue.
Anyways, I eagerly await your response, I can tell you have a lot of experience as a film critic. (by the way, what did you mean by propaganda for propaganda's sake?)

[NovelteaJ]

Did we watch the same movie? When I watched "Everything, Everywhere, All At Once" I watched a movie about a mother and her daughter coming to terms with eachother and fixing the bond that was broken between them by generational trauma.