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Remind MeSome films arrive and quietly find their audience. Then there are films like Everything Everywhere All at Once, which landed in 2022 and immediately felt like a cultural event. People were not just recommending it, they were grabbing friends by the shoulders. It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor and Actress. That is not a typo.
At its center is Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American laundromat owner drowning in tax paperwork, a struggling marriage, and a daughter she does not know how to talk to. Then the multiverse opens up, and everything she could have been across every possible life she might have lived comes flooding in at once. The film uses that premise to go completely, gloriously unhinged, and somehow, in the middle of all the chaos, it lands an emotional gut punch that genuinely earns it.
Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the duo known as the Daniels, this is the kind of filmmaking that reminds you what movies can actually do when someone swings for something no one has tried before. Everything Everywhere All at Once arrives on Tubi soon, and if you have been waiting for the right moment, this is your heads up.
“In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.”
Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, and the performance is the foundation everything else is built on. She carries exhaustion, ferocity, grief, and absurdist comedy sometimes within the same scene, and never once loses the thread of who Evelyn actually is underneath all of it. The Oscar was deserved.
Quan plays Waymond, Evelyn's husband, and delivers one of the most quietly devastating performances in the film. He brings a warmth that the story keeps testing, and the moments where that warmth holds its ground are the ones that stay with you long after the credits roll.
Hsu plays Joy, Evelyn's daughter, and she is asked to do an enormous amount of work across very different versions of the same person. She handles the emotional range with real confidence, making Joy feel fully human even when the film sends her somewhere completely unexpected.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the rare film that earns every single thing it asks of you. It is loud and strange and visually relentless, and it earns the right to be all of those things because it never loses sight of the small, specific story at its core: a mother and a daughter who cannot find their way to each other. That is what the whole multiverse is actually about.
It is also genuinely funny in ways that are hard to anticipate and impossible to fully describe without ruining them. The Daniels built something that works as action, as comedy, as science fiction, and as an emotional drama, and somehow none of those modes cancel each other out. That is an almost impossible thing to pull off, and they pulled it off.
This one is for anyone who has ever felt like they chose the wrong path, anyone who has a complicated relationship with a parent or a child, and anyone who just wants to watch a film that does something they have never seen before. Coming soon to Tubi.
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, Harry Shum Jr., Jenny Slate
On Tubi.tv on July 1.
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