In Ari Aster’s dark comedy, Joaquin Phoenix plays the sheriff of a New Mexico town riven by political clashes and pandemic anxieties.

In the A24 horror auteur's ‘Eddington,’ Joaquin Phoenix is a small-town sheriff struggling to keep the peace in a locked-down town.

The film takes place in May 2020 in the fictional town of Eddington, New Mexico, and becomes a battleground when Sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) clashes with Mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) over plans to bring an artificial intelligence data center to the community.

Eddington will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. in theaters on Friday, July 18. You can find a showing near you via Fandango. The Eddington movie is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.

Ari Aster puts his signature bizarre touch on the spring of 2020, when pandemics, politics, posts and pings drove America around the bend.

Hereditary” and “Midsommar” director Ari Aster takes on contemporary America in “Eddington.” Joaquin Phoenix stars as a local sheriff in a fictional New Mexico town in May 2020, a time

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Aster shot the film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, in New Mexico but is coming to Texas in the fall for a new project aimed at lifting up emerging filmmakers.