[FILM]
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
[ EDITED BY JOHN NUGENT]
★★★★★
OUT 13 MAY / CERT TBC 132 MINS
DIRECTORS Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
CAST Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate
PLOT Evelyn (Yeoh) is trying to complete her tax audit, throw a Chinese New Year party to impress her father (Hong), navigate a possible divorce and avoid alienating daughter Joy (Hsu).
She’s also the last hope of the multiverse — tasked with fighting an evil entity threatening to destroy, well, everything.
AT THE EXACT moment Everything Everywhere All At Once is about to kick into overdrive, Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn reads a vital piece of advice: “P.S. Don’t forget to breathe.” Really, it’s a missive to the audience —a necessary heads-up to, in the words of Jurassic Park’s Mr Arnold, hold onto your butts. Because once it starts, it rarely stops — an all-out cinematic assault, a cacophony of creativity that dazzles, delights, and defies explanation with every passing second. Leaving you breathless is its entire MO.