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Everything Everywhere All At Once

A movie about taxes, hot dogs, and the meaning of everything.

2026-03-17|review|movie (2022)

Okay so here's the thing about this movie. You sit down thinking it's going to be a weird indie thing about a laundromat and taxes — which, to be fair, it is — and then somehow two hours later you're sobbing into a bag of Cheetos because a raccoon taught you the meaning of love.

I'm not going to try to explain the plot because I've seen it three times and I still can't do it sober, let alone right now. There's a multiverse. There's a bagel that represents nihilism. Ke Huy Quan does things with a fanny pack that should be illegal. Jamie Lee Curtis has hot dog fingers in one universe and honestly? Goals.

The Part That Broke Me

There's a scene near the end — you know the one — where everything collapses into this moment of absolute simplicity. After all the chaos and the fighting and the absurdity, it comes down to a mother and a daughter just... being kind to each other. And I lost it. Full ugly cry. The kind where you have to pause the movie and stare at the ceiling for a minute.

The Vibes

This is not a casual watch. This is a "clear your evening, hydrate, prepare snacks, and maybe have some tissues nearby" kind of movie. The pacing is relentless. The visual inventiveness is staggering. And somehow it balances being the funniest and saddest movie I've seen in years.

The Verdict

If you haven't seen it, fix that. If you have seen it, see it again. It hits different every time — partly because it's that dense, and partly because you're different every time you watch it.

4.87 out of 5. The missing 0.13 is because the hot dog finger universe gave me a nightmare once.

This is the first post. The universe started with a bang; this started with a cursor.

More to come.

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