Film Review

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

An ageing Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.

Having left an indelible impression with the absurdist black comedy (2016), where Daniel Radcliffe played a flatulent corpse being used as an all-purpose tool by Paul Dano trapped on a desert island, it’s taken far too long for filmmaking duo Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (“the Daniels”) to make another movie. That it’s one of the year’s biggest sleeper hits, becoming an unprecedented success at the US box office, is both a testament to the filmmakers tapping into the Asian-American demographic and for appealing to anyone desperate for a unique vision behind the camera.

Everything Everywhere All at Once (hereafter Everywhere) concerns a Chinese-American woman called Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), who runs a struggling laundromat with her meek husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) that’s about to be audited by the IRS. Adding to an already chaotic…