Eddington Is Conflicted About Masks, Still

 September 4, 2025

   Great clouds out this morning. Monsoon hangover. Got some rain. Buckeye called me about our art show next month and he told me it's lethally hot in Texas. I told him it was bitter cold here—88 degrees—and I have a sweater on.

Morning Glory

   We're finally watching Eddington. Here's part of a review about this fictional New Mexican town, in the middle of COVID way back in 2020:

"Eddington" is certainly ambitious, said Justin Chang in The New Yorker. It "has the dust of a western, the snark of a satire, the violence of a thriller, the nihilism of a noir, and the bloat of an epic". Its subjects are "the morass of misinformation and irreconcilable political rancour" that has taken hold since the pandemic. Unfortunately, it's also a "slog", and the laughs are largely "reactionary" – at the expense of "the young and woke".

Well, it seemed fairly even-handed to me, said Danny Leigh in the Financial Times: right-wingers and QAnon fruitcakes get it in the neck too. This is a "feelbad" movie, but it's an "insightful" one. "Things get pointedly deranged", as "the personal and political are yoked together in a spiralling final act, frantic and elaborate". 

—The Week

   How could you NOT want to watch that?

  "Eddington is a lethally self-satisfied thriller"

—The New Yorker