Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) is a wildly inventive sci‑fi adventure that fuses kinetic action, absurdist comedy and surprising emotional depth. The film follows Evelyn Wang, an overworked Chinese immigrant whose failing laundromat, fracturing marriage and tense relationship with her daughter are interrupted by a mind‑bending multiverse crisis: only she can access alternate lives she might have lived to fight an existential threat and save reality itself. If you watch this movie you’ll be taken on a relentless sensory ride — rapid-fire edits, imaginative visual gags, gravity‑defying fight sequences and bursts of surreal humor — paired with quiet, intimate moments of family drama. The tone swings from slapstick and pulp‑science spectacle to heartbreak and tenderness, so expect to laugh, gasp and often feel unexpectedly moved. The narrative uses the multiverse conceit to explore identity, regret, generational conflict and the small choices that shape a life. Visually daring and emotionally raw, the film balances its outlandish ideas with a humane center: the characters’ relationships are what give the chaos meaning. Performances (led by a commanding lead) anchor the film’s more extravagant flights, making its philosophical questions about purpose and connection land. In short, Everything Everywhere All at Once is an exhilarating, messy, and strangely uplifting movie that rewards viewers who are ready for both sensory overload and sincere emotional payoff.

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis

Directors: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert

Genre: Sci-Fi

81 /100 7.8 /10 8.0 /10