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Everything Everywhere All at Once? Yes, And a Little Extra Too

Perhaps the greatest performance of Michelle Yeoh’s career comes in Everything Everywhere All at Once, a multiverse dramedy epic in which she plays a completely ordinary woman. Evelyn Wang (Yeoh) is a Chinese American immigrant with a flailing marriage, a failing laundromat and a daughter she doesn’t quite understand. Her husband, Waymond (Ke Huy Quan), is sweet and affable, but the stress of caring for her elderly father (James Hong) and averting an impending IRS audit mean she doesn’t have time for him, and he’s filed for divorce just to get her attention. Her daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), has a girlfriend and a tattoo, which Evelyn is trying very hard to understand. Her life is already full to the point of bursting when a version of Waymond from another universe appears and warns her that she’s in grave danger.

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