Everything Everywhere All At Once Review: Yeoh Delivers In Imaginative Sci-Fi
Everything Everywhere All at Once is unlike any movie audiences will see this year. Wildly creative and touching, writer-directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known collectively as Daniels) meticulously craft a film that is as imaginative as it is intense. Everything Everywhere All At Once is weird in the best of ways, emotional, smart, and ready to take viewers on a ride they won’t soon forget.
The film follows Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), a middle-aged Chinese American business owner who is struggling with everything. Her laundromat is not doing so well, her marriage to husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) is on the rocks, she still feels distant from her previously estranged father (James Hong), and Evelyn’s relationship with her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) is strained. On top of all that, Evelyn finds herself in the midst of an IRS audit headed by a stern agent named Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis). Evelyn is trying to salvage her crumbling relationships while avoiding her own feelings of inadequacy. Everything changes, however, when Evelyn is made aware of a multiverse — multiple versions of herself who branched off because a different choice was made, each of which took them on different paths — and is told she is crucial to saving it.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once dwells in a very wondrous, chaotic world, one that is bound by thin rules and occasionally zany nonsense. It makes the film incredibly fun and wholly unpredictable, which is to its benefit. At its center, however, is a very grounded story, bolstered by a moving performance by Michelle Yeoh. She is the beating heart of the film, imbuing Evelyn with anxious tendencies, unbridled energy, and a
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