We are still too close to the COVID-19 pandemic for most people to be nostalgic for it, let alone eager to relive the peculiar, surreal dread that accompanied it. And yet, with Eddington, director Ari Aster seems determined to trap his audience inside the worst of that era’s paranoia, partisanship, and posturing without offering anything that might justify the return trip. There’s a version of this film that could have worked. Sadly, it's not the film we're given. This may have been a politically sharp black comedy with real...