Eddington: Western Noir Chaos Made Boring

Writer-director Ari Aster tends to end his narratives in careening mayhem that finally exhausts itself in an absurdist state of entrapment. Midsommar, his best film, makes use of the conventions of the folk horror subgenre in order to achieve this end effectively. Hereditary, a big success that made Aster famous, was also protected by horror genre conventions, though after a promising start, I found it so silly as to be unendurable.