Review: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is, for better or worse, exactly that

At the beginning of "Everything Everywhere All at Once," the camera creeps slowly toward a circular mirror — an apt start for a movie that will soon whoosh its characters through one looking glass after another. Amid all the whooshing, though, try to hold on to the image of that circle, which isn't the easiest thing to do amid all the sights and sounds, frenzied fight scenes and grotesque sight gags that Daniels — aka the writing-directing duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert ("Swiss Army Man") — have crammed into their latest surreal head-spinner of a movie.

Still, they do leave a trail of metaphysical breadcrumbs, or perhaps I should say bagel crumbs. That circle will recur throughout the movie, first in the glass door of a washing machine and later as an extremely literal "everything bagel," a giant cosmic doughnut that has been sprinkled with flecks of every piece of matter