Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

This movie has hot dog fingers, a raccoon chef, a giant everything bagel and a fistfight with a fanny pack, and it’s still one ending too long. At 139 minutes, the last act stacks climaxes like pancakes and you feel every single one. Michelle Yeoh gets to be a kung fu legend, a movie star, a chef and a laundromat owner on the worst tax day of her life, sometimes in the same minute. Ke Huy Quan is the reason you’ll cry. Waymond’s plea for kindness turns a multiverse brawl into the softest thing on screen. Jamie Lee Curtis as the auditor is pure menace with a stack of receipts. A few gags go for gross-out laughs that land softer than the feelings do. It made $147.9 million worldwide, which is huge for a movie this weird. An 8.9 because under all the googly eyes, it’s a story about a mom and a daughter, and that part hits like a truck. $9.18 says you stick a googly eye on your fridge and call it personal growth.

What works: Michelle Yeoh doing everything at once, Ke Huy Quan’s gentle Waymond, and a mother and daughter story that lands under all the chaos.

What doesn’t: The finale piles up ending after ending, and a couple of the gross-out gags feel like the movie showing off instead of paying off.

Who it’s for: Anyone who has ever argued with their mom and then felt bad about it, and people who like their action movies extremely weird.