Good news for Western fans: one of the genre's gems is coming in 2025 (and with a cast of ten).

The Western returns to the screen with a film that promises to be a hot topic. It's "Eddington," the new film by Ari Aster, director of cult titles like "Heditary" and "Midsommar," which hits Spanish theaters this Friday, September 12th, following its run at Cannes and the Atlántida Film Fest. A must-see for fans of the genre... albeit with nuances.

If anything stands out from the start, it's its stellar cast: Joaquin Phoenix , Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler share the screen in a story that moves away from the classic Western to offer an unusual mix of genres. Ari Aster transforms the rivalry between a sheriff and a mayor of a small town in New Mexico into a story marked by the pandemic, suspense, and dark comedy.

Forget those expecting grand duels in the sun or endless rides. Here, confrontations are settled with words, gunshots are rumors, and fake news spreads faster than any stagecoach. The film places the viewer in May 2020, amidst uncertainty, where Sheriff Joe Cross (Phoenix) and Mayor Ted Garcia (Pascal) bring the town of Eddington to the brink of chaos with their decisions.

Known for his ability to make audiences uncomfortable, Aster delivers his most restrained, but no less disturbing, work. Threat lingers in every shot, in every silence, in every seemingly minimal gesture that explodes with tension. Between defiant masks, conspiracy theorists driving pickup trucks, and funerals interrupted by a live stream on social media, the director plays with the boundary between the grotesque and the real.

Critics have praised the film's ability to portray the social fracture of those months without directly mentioning the pandemic . With touches of dark humor and scenes that border on the surreal, Eddington becomes an uncomfortable mirror of a time that still resonates. Aster manages to make a newscast feel like a performance and transform a simple internet comment into a narrative key.

In the United States , the film hit theaters last July, but Spanish audiences had to wait until September to see it on the big screen. The wait, however, seems to have been worth it: it's not an easy offering or one designed for all audiences , but it is a work that confirms that the western, far from being dead, is still capable of reinventing itself and surprising in 2025.

The Western returns to the screen with a film that promises to be a hot topic. It's "Eddington," the new film by Ari Aster, director of cult titles like "Heditary" and "Midsommar," which hits Spanish theaters this Friday, September 12th, following its run at Cannes and the Atlántida Film Fest. A must-see for fans of the genre... albeit with nuances.