Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) runs a laundromat with her meek husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan). Her lesbian daughter (Stephanie Hsu) is fed up with her mother’s criticism, embarrassment, and disapproval. With the business undergoing an audit, the Wang family venture to the office of frumpy IRS auditor Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis) and that’s when things get weird. Waymond is overtaken by what he says is another version of himself in what he calls the multiverse and has come to tell Evelyn that all hell has broken loose in the multiverse and only Evelyn can put a stop to it. James Hong plays the Wong family patriarch, who has become largely senile. For this 2022 Best Picture Oscar winner, writer-director team Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have taken elements of “Donnie Darko” , “Parasite” , author Douglas Adams’s books, “Being John Malkovich” and combined them (among other influences) to create something wholly different and completely bonkers. Yes it’s overlong, flawed, and per...