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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s 2022 Oscar-winning sci-fi movie Everything Everywhere All at Once is now available on HBO Max. The Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis-starring film joined the platform on March 1st, but it’s unclear how long it will be available to stream. The movie blends sci-fi, surreal comedy, fantasy, martial arts, and animation into a multiverse tale about an exhausted Chinese American immigrant mother who must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers and save existence. The movie holds a near-perfect and “Certified Fresh” 93% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
What Makes Everything Everywhere All at Once Such Great Sci-Fi?
It’s not a stretch to say that Everything Everywhere All at Once is a sci-fi masterpiece or even one of the best sci-fi movies ever. The film, which became the first sci-fi film ever to win the Best Picture Oscar, earns that high praise for the way it grounds its chaotic, high-concept multiverse sci-fi in intimate, deeply human emotions. The movie’s concept of infinite possibilities, which itself is highly entertaining and perfectly executed, is used as a vehicle to explore the immigrant experience, generational trauma, and the search for meaning, weaving a deeply human narrative into a film that delivers on its sci-fi premise as Evelyn taps into skills from alternate selves to fight a threat to existence.
