Review: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once' is transcendent and a bit exhausting

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In many ways, “Everything Everywhere” is a transcendently singular film that remixes familiar genre tropes into something that feels wholly new and quietly revolutionary. In other ways, it’s just exhausting. FOX film critic Caroline Siede reviews the highly anticipated Michelle Yeoh film.

to ride him around the ocean like a jetski. That outrageous premise belied a dark comedy that was also a surprisingly moving exploration of friendship and coming of age, and "Everything Everywhere All At Once" aims to deliver the same kind of bold tonal shifts — only on an exponentially larger scale.

There’s no doubt that the pure ambition on display is stunning, and the Daniels couldn’t have found a better cast to anchor a film that’s sometimes a sci-fi martial arts epic, sometimes a "Sliding Doors"-style drama, sometimes an over-the-top Paul Verhoeven-style satire and sometimes just a ridiculous fratty comedy.

The incredible dexterity Yeoh has demonstrated across her nearly 40-year career reaches a pinnacle here, as she effortlessly shifts between an endless number of Evelyns — from a frazzled, frustrated family woman to a glamorous movie star to a confident martial arts master to a lovelorn woman with hot dogs for fingers.

 

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