Everything Everywhere All at Once
Directed by The Daniels
Written by The Daniels
Starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu
Released April 8th, 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once is my new favorite movie. This gloriously chaotic comedy drama from directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, is an epic of galaxy-brained thought experiments, love, despair, and everything in between. While the Multiverse is a concept most often given over to Marvel movies in our modern pop culture, it’s also a real theoretical and philosophical concept and Everything Everywhere All at Once plays out the theoretical and philosophical concept to an absurdly brilliant degree to explore the relationship between a mother and a daughter and the choices that made them who they are.
The completely brilliant Michelle Yeoh stars in Everything Everywhere All at Once as Evelyn, a troubled, easily distracted, and deeply unfulfilled Laundromat owner. Evelyn is scatterbrained, everything requires her attention all the time. Her family business is being audited by a cranky IRS Agent, Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), she’s growing disconnected from her dippy husband, Waymund (Ke Huy Quan), and her relationship with her daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), is strained to the breaking point as Evelyn struggles with not wanting to tell her father, Gong Gong (James Hong), that Joy is gay out of fear of his reaction.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
