A24’s sci-fi action comedy, Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, has debuted to a near-perfect audience and critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes. Everything Everywhere All at Once is currently sitting at a 97% certified fresh critic and a 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads: "Led by an outstanding Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once lives up to its title with an expertly calibrated assault on the sense."
Everything Everywhere All at Once stars Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Crazy Rich Asians) as Evelyn, a woman exhausted with her daily life and struggling to pay her taxes, who one day is thrown into an interdimensional expedition to save the world. The film is written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka The Daniels. The filmmaking duo is best known for helming the 2016 surreal comedy Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is another genre-bending film from A24 that blends action, adventure, comedy, and science-fiction to deliver a one-of-a-kind experience. The critics have praised Michelle Yeoh’s lead performance and the film’s creative storytelling, which is equal parts emotional and hilarious. Everything Everywhere All at Once also features a face-off between Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, giving moviegoers another reason to check out the film. Ke Huy Quan, best known for playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data Wang in The Goonies, also stars in Everything Everywhere All at Once, returning to films after two decades.
Everything Everywhere All at Once premiered at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival on March 11, 2022. Janet Pierson, SXSW Director of Film, was all praise for the film, saying, "We are thrilled to premiere Daniels' latest work, which is fantastically inventive, entertaining, emotionally grounded, and crammed with the exceptional creativity that makes their projects so satisfying. Audiences are going to have their minds blown by this extraordinary feat of filmmaking."
Everything Everywhere All at Once was released theatrically on March 25, 2022.
Michelle Yeoh Will Be Next Seen In The Witcher: Blood Origin And Avatar 2
Michelle Yeoh recently recalled a time when she was having an existential crisis in the ‘90s and was ready to quit acting till Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino helped change her mind. Yeoh then went on to play a Bond Girl alongside Pierce Brosnan in 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies and star in Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeoh is now one of the most renowned and sought-after actresses in Hollywood and Asian cinema.
She has appeared in several blockbuster films and high-profile TV shows like Kung Fu Panda 2, Crazy Rich Asians, Star Trek: Discovery, and most recently, Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Yeoh will next headline Netflix’s The Witcher prequel, Blood Origin. The show is set 1200 years before the events of The Witcher, and will depict the creation of the first Witcher, and events leading to the "conjunction of the spheres." The Witcher: Blood Origin is expected to premiere on Netflix later this year. Yeoh will also be seen in James Cameron’s long-delayed Avatar 2, releasing on December 16, 2022.