CHICAGO - Editor's note: This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the SXSW Film Festival. It has been expanded and republished timed to the film's expansion into theaters nationwide on April 8. "Everything Everywhere All At Once" is now playing everywhere (all at once).
You can also read FOX's interview with directing duo Daniels.A trailer can disguise a bad movie or undersell a great one. So the good news for "Everything Everywhere All At Once" is that its delightfully gonzo trailer accurately reflects exactly what’s in the tin: An absolutely bananas, action-packed interdimensional dark comedy about an everyday wife and mother charged with saving the multiverse.
The trouble is, "Everything Everywhere All At Once" is paced like a movie trailer for nearly it’s entire 140-minute runtime — barely letting up to breathe as it tells a story that’s at once massive in scope and deeply intimate in scale.
That makes the experience of watching it a dual one: In many ways, "Everything Everywhere" is a transcendently singular film that remixes familiar genre tropes into something that feels wholly new and quietly revolutionary.