Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) just died. Fortunately for her, death comes with options. She gets to choose between a series of curated afterlives, each designed so she can spend a hand-selected eternity with the person she loved most. Unfortunately, she was married twice: first to Luke (Callum Turner), a dedicated soldier who died in war, and later to Larry (Miles Teller), with whom she shared 65 years and raised a family. So now Joan must decide between the smoldering heat of her first love and the cozy domesticity of her second. With A24 distributing and a respectable cast assembled, one might assume the existential rom-com Eternity would sidestep the genre’s tired clichés and deliver something meaningful. Instead, it sinks comfortably into the wreckage of the rom-com’s worst instincts, like a codependent relationship that’s too lazy to risk anything new. Though just mildly amusing and just mildly clever, Eternity is unmistakably formulaic, centering its drama on that tried and true love triangle truism: women be indecisive. Read More
