There’s a Three Billboards-ness to Eddington’s whole set-up, which proves a hard comparison to shake off. Embroiled in Joe’s murky schemes are a pair of police deputies, one given to racist assumptions (Luke Grimes) and the other black (Micheal Ward) with a shruggingly neutral point of view. Aster is out to prove that the loudest voices are often the least sincere: this goes for most of the young, white placard-wielders who take to the streets after George Floyd’s death, one of them an incel named Brian (Cameron Mann) who poses as anti-racist purely to try and get laid. It’s very...