The Aisle Seat: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”: The Frenzy of the Eternal Now

Thomas Burchfield
5 min readApr 21, 2022
(A24)

It may not be a great movie, but it’s easy to admire and enjoy Everything Everywhere All at Once (now streaming on Amazon) as a funhouse genre-bender through our addle-headed, anxious and dangerously confused era.

The film is a head-trip, a Hong Kong-style, action comedy of intruding and conflicting realities that wrap…

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Thomas Burchfield

Essayist, film critic, humorist, and novelist. The author of 1920s noir gangster novel , BUTCHERTOWN, available at Amazon and other booksellers.