Everything Everywhere All at Once

There are moments when the title seems too literal. Exhaustion creeps in. But successive second winds follow.

The Daniels and their wow of a star Michelle Yeoh turn this visionary absurdist comedy into a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.

The result may be a tad overlong and convolutedly overstuffed, but it made me laugh, cry and think...

Rich performances collide with big ideas, wrapped in a nuanced understanding of how we treat each other. And there are butt jokes. So many wonderful, dumb butt jokes. What more could you ask for?

I’ve rarely felt more impaled on the fence by a film, because, exactly as promised, it’s everything at once – good and not good; fresh yet still a formula; cramped, strenuous, full to the brim.

While not entirely without fault, you would be pressed to find a film as brilliantly chaotic or as original as Kwan and Scheinert’s film.

It's a whirl, a swirl, a trip, a blast and a juggle as well and, in this universe, the Daniels wouldn't have it any other way.

This is the true virtue that catapults this film into an instant classic: It finds beauty in the ordinary. [Full review in Spanish]

After maybe, 10-15 minutes of normal stuff -- taxes, laundry, family tensions -- this movie takes off into some of the most imaginative and just plain what-tha’-??????? territory you’ve ever seen.

Not the perfect movie they've been hyping about, but a visually stunning feature with Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan at the top of their game. An interesting story about embracing the uncertainty of our own destiny. Twenty minutes too long IMO.