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Weappington

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Phil Christman
Aug 31, 2025
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Weappington

Eddington and Weapons are, thus far, the first films to deal with the pandemic era directly—at least the first I’ve seen. Illness features in both films, sort of. Eddington is set in the first half of 2020 and offers us the spectacle of COVID itself, plus widespread mental illness. Weapons is not, and does not, but it does give us—well, I don…

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