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.

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.

In "Eddington," Ari Aster's unpleasant and explosive neo-western black comedy, the writer-director plunges viewers into a world of COVID, cult leaders, mask mandates, social justice, online radicalization, hashtag activism and other pleasantries from our recent past which directly shaped our current state of the world.

The first and maybe only true jump scare in Ari Aster’s “Eddington” comes right at the start. A barefoot old man trudges down the center of a road running through an empty Western town. He’s ranting and incoherently raving as he climbs a craggy hill silhouetted against a twilight sky. He gazes, or maybe glares, out at the town below.

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.

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.

Eddington will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. in theaters on Friday, July 18. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. The Eddington movie is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.

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,

Review: The problem with an anarchic satire like “Eddington” is that any criticism could easily be dismissed with a “that’s the point” counterargument.