Netflix movie of the day: Everything Everywhere All At Once is everything you want from a multiverse movie
If you only watch one movie with hotdog fingers this weekend…
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Everything Everywhere All At Onceisn’t so much a rollercoaster of a movie as an entire theme park of a film. It’s absolutely packed with thrills and spills, and it often teeters on the edge of madness without ever falling off. It’s a multiverse movie, but not in the po-faced sense of so many action flicks: this is much weirder, much funnier and much more fun. It also features some absolutely priceless sight gags that’ll have you howling. At first, the movie appears to be about a woman (Michelle Yeoh) and her tax troubles. But it quickly spins off into something truly bizarre and utterly original featuring interdimensional travel, body horror and some epic martial arts battles too. Definitely one to stream this weekend onNetflix.
A big mad mess of a movie, and that’s a compliment
According to theMetronewspaper: “The most brilliantly bananas movie of 2022 absolutely lives up to its title. Michelle Yeoh kicks all types of butt as a time-travelling laundromat manager in a multiverse of madness.” TheLondon Review of Bookssays: “The film has been billed as a science-fiction comedy, but it doesn’t really belong to either genre, despite the abundance of fantasy and the fact that it’s often very funny.”
It’s not for everyone, saysCouncil of Geeks: “I can’t promise everyone will like it, because it is so weird. But it’s so unique I feel like everybody should give it a shot.” And theFinancial Timessays it can be a bit much sometimes. “There are moments when the title seemstooliteral. Exhaustion creeps in. But successive second winds follow.”
Alternative Lenssays: “It’s up there withMad Max: Fury Road,Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VerseandThe Matrix, in that it’s a movie that fully embraces the spectacle and artistry of cinema whilst never forgetting about what really matters: story, character, and theme.”
Although the movie is often very silly, it still delivers quite the emotional experience. AsBBC.comsays, “Delightfully bonkers on the surface, this inventive extravaganza from the directing team called Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) has a deep layer of family feeling and a well-earned emotional pull at the end.” And according toVox: “It’s absurd and wild and wonderful, and will probably make you cry.”
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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