A filmmaker who wanted to make a politically contentious movie couldn’t do much better than to set it in mid-2020. But the true politics of Ari Aster’s “Eddington” are sexual politics, Richard Brody writes.

 A filmmaker who wanted to make a politically contentious movie couldn’t do much better than to set it in mid-2020. But the true politics of Ari Aster’s “Eddington” are sexual politics, Richard Brody writes.