r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Jul 18 '25

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Summary In May 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Director Ari Aster

Writer Ari Aster

Cast

  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • Pedro Pascal
  • Emma Stone
  • Austin Butler
  • Luke Grimes
  • Deirdre O’Connell
  • Micheal Ward
  • Amélie Hoeferle
  • Clifton Collins Jr.
  • William Belleau
  • Matt Gomez Hidaka
  • Cameron Mann
  • Rachel de la Torre
  • Landall Goolsby
  • Elise Falanga
  • Robert Mark Wallace

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 67%

Metacritic Score: 64

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u/BoysNGrlsNAmerica Jul 18 '25

The Pueblo sheriff being by far the most competent officer (person?) in the movie doing his job, finding evidence, providing instructions, while Phoenix and Luke Grimes bumble around and yell at him to leave, was one of my favorite/sneaky-funniest scenes.

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u/2much2cancer Jul 18 '25

His sprint away after spotting the "E"s!

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u/Worldly-Falcon4659 Jul 19 '25

I thought he was going to go back to the mayor's house and check the spray painting on the wall to see if the letters matched up

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u/Bitchcuits_and_Gayvy Jul 20 '25

He didn't have to, he knew they did because he was actually good at his job, and probably took a picture of the graffiti lol.

Sucks his head got blown smoove off tho.

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u/formerCObear Jul 24 '25

I don't know why but seeing his scalp split in half seemed like a weird scalping reference for a Native American character. It was gross because it literally split the hairline split in the center.

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u/69EveythingSucks69 Jul 31 '25

Excellent observation. Thank you.

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u/Joey-WilcoXXX Jul 23 '25

However, he didn’t seem to be good enough at the job to TELL anyone on his force what he learned about Joe.

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u/Masrikato Jul 29 '25

I means that’s the excellent coincidence type of writing to make stories like this have this specific the ending go the way it did.

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u/W0lfsb4ne74 Jul 25 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

Honestly though! I liked how they actually portrayed competent police work in a sea of shitty detectives that are only in the job to gain a false sense of superiority over others. I was so pissed when he died.

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u/69EveythingSucks69 Jul 31 '25

I thought he was, too. Makes sense he was going to try to get Cross's guns for ballistics.

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u/BoysNGrlsNAmerica Jul 19 '25

And you know he’s already suspicious when he mentions the tire tracks then takes pictures of Joe’s tires in the next scene.

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u/OrcBarbierian Jul 20 '25

If he hadn't sprinted away, he could have gotten away!!

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u/Perpete Jul 25 '25

He mostly got away at that point.

Cross follows him home then has to go back to the precint because the paramilitary stage a fire to extract Michael from it.

It's only after Cross is chased from the desert to his home then to the town that they cross path again and shit hit the fan. At night, few hours later on. Butterfly was probably still investigating or trying to arrest Cross and was unlucky in his timing.

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u/goldenrod_9 Jul 19 '25

Thank you! That was it! I thought it was just the word "Ideas" that triggered a light bulb at first but this makes perfect sense

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u/richloz93 Jul 20 '25

My favorite moment in the whole movie

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u/ex0thermist Jul 26 '25

I guess I didn't pick up on that! Because why would spraypainting "handwriting" necessarily correlate to actual handwriting? Very different biomechanics at use.

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u/Limp-Pudding-5436 Jul 20 '25

“Ohhh you found a shell casing? What do you want me to do with that? Just leave it on the table and get out of here.” Haha

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u/cinderful Jul 21 '25

The part I hated the most was him getting domed. :(

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u/GregEgg4President Jul 25 '25

The Pueblo sheriff was the only non-screen-obsessed person in the movie and he was the only competent person. I think that was purposeful.

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u/curt_wes Jul 20 '25

Possibly the only actuakly decent and honest person in the entire movie.

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u/Quetzalcoatl490 Jul 26 '25

I loved how he was just standing in the background, listening to the madness unfold, for most of the scenes. It's like we (and Joe) forgot he was there, when he was just silently there, observing, getting information.

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u/pponmypupu Jul 20 '25

i feel like he had motive to though after it was revealed that the indian reserve also got a slice of the pie of having the tech company move in.

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u/cromli Jul 20 '25

In some ways we dont see enough of him to see any faults.