As the camera literally zooms through the mirror, Evelyn’s smile fades, now seated at a table awash with business receipts. We see their smiling faces reflected in a mirror on their living room wall. We first meet her enjoying a happy moment with her husband Waymond ( Ke Huy Quan) and their daughter Joy ( Stephanie Hsu). In this love letter to genre cinema, Michelle Yeoh gives a virtuoso performance as Evelyn Wang, a weary owner of a laundromat under IRS audit. That is, until they take an emotional, philosophical, and deeply weird trip through the looking glass into the multiverse and discover metaphysical wisdom along the way. At least that’s where the characters in writer/directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, new film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” find themselves initially. Few things in life are certain besides death, taxes, and maybe the never-ending task that is doing laundry.
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