Welcome to The Morning After, where I share with you what movies I’ve seen over the past week. Below, you will find short reviews of those movies along with a star rating. Full length reviews may come at a later date.

So, here is what I watched this past week:

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Once I write my formal review, I may feel differently about this rating, but Everything Everywhere All at Once is certainly unique. Exploring the idea of family, existential crises, and other obvious philosophical concepts, the film uses its quasi-futuristic narrative to delve into these topics in ways not often seen in film. Michelle Yeoh stars as a beleaguered laundromat owner whose father’s (James Hong) disappointment in her has colored her life’s goals and work. She cares for him out of love in his old age, but cannot escape the recriminations baked into their relationship. Her husband (Ke Huy Quan) is a doting man who is slowly coming to realize that her patriarchal hang-ups are affecting their relationship in a way as its his own fault the two had a falling out in the first place.

Much of these psychological elements are played out in snippets of her life examined as she discovers that she’s one of millions of individuals across a multiverse where one small evolutionary step could result in humans with hot dogs for fingers or a bad ass Kung Fu warrior could become a movie star. Throw in an impending audit with a dreary IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis) and a fractured relationship with her daughter (Stephanie Hsu), and you have a fairly familiar dysfunctional family trope enhanced by an incredibly bizarre multidimensional universe.

Hsu and Curtis are the standouts here and Yeoh does tremendous work playing several intriguing interpretations of her character, one of which is a direct callback to her own storied cinematic career. Hsu must build her character around her Yeoh’s, embodying many of the same rebellious elements that characterized her early upbringing. They play incredibly well off of one another with Hsu doing her best to add an American flavor to the traditional Chinese customs of familial obligations. Curtis just adds a much needed level of humor to a film that is often quite absurd and her character going along with it with a large dose of self-parody. Quan and Hong deliver solid performances, but are out-acted by their female counterparts.