Everything Everywhere All at Once

Raising an ecstatic hot dog middle finger to the negativity of modern times, “EEAAO” urges us to free our minds and accept that it’s OK to be strange.

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.

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.

Exhilarating, funny and moving, their film is also messy, overstuffed and a trifle exhausting.

It’s absurd and wild and wonderful, and will probably make you cry.

There are moments when the title seems too literal. Exhaustion creeps in. But successive second winds follow.

This film can’t quite commit to its interdimensional-war gimmick; it’s an appendage, mostly played for laughs, to the real story, which I kept waiting to arrive -- and when it did, I wished it hadn’t.

A great, fabulous, huge movie that is almost literally all heart.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is beautifully chaotic, wonderfully weird, and one of the coolest movies ever made.

The Daniels accomplished something wonderful for the audience.