When a small New Mexico town called Eddington locks down during the pandemic in May 2020, the sheriff and the mayor butt heads over how to handle the crisis, and their feud spirals into something that divides the whole community. Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal are magnetic as the two men at the center of it, each convinced they're doing the right thing while everything falls apart around them. Director Ari Aster takes the Western formula — frontier justice, stubborn men, a town tearing itself apart — and plants it in 2020 America, which is darkly funny and genuinely unsettling. If you liked Hell or High Water or The Power of the Dog, this scratches that itch for a morality play disguised as a standoff.