Nicholas Barber Brook Rushton From Superman to I Know What You Did Last Summer – these are the films to watch at the cinema and stream at home this month. A24 Eddington Best known as the horror auteur who chilled audiences with Hereditary and Midsommar , Ari Aster moves on to state-of-the-nation satirical comedy with his latest film, Eddington. The title is the name of a small desert town in New Mexico where the sheriff, Joaquin Phoenix, is at loggerheads with the business-minded mayor, Pedro Pascal. Their feud has something to do with the sheriff's wife, Emma Stone, but it spirals out of control in 2020 when the town is hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. Aster "transforms everyday American insanity into one of the most artistically complete and compulsively watchable doom-scrolls of the year", says Tomris Laffly in Elle . "It's insightful, gloriously bonkers, and often very funny… both the definitive Covid movie and a modern-day ...