EVERYTHING EVERWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE looks at first like a multiverse action comedy, then very quickly becomes something much stranger and more ambitious. It's a martial arts film, an absurdist family melodrama, a mother-daughter story, an immigrant story, a tax-office breakdown, and a cosmic joke about how impossible it is to live one life while imagining all the others you might have had. Somehow it keeps all of that moving at once.

The film is packed with visual invention and comic escalation, but what makes it connect so strongly is that underneath the chaos it remains emotionally legible. Michelle Yeoh is superb, and for all its chaos, the film stays emotionally grounded. This is maximalist filmmaking with a real heart.