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Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once. (Image: Supplied)
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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are two writer-directors who credit themselves as “Daniels” when they work together. Their first feature film, Swiss Army Man (2016), was a surreal comedy in which a man (Paul Dano) befriends a magical cadaver (Daniel Radcliffe), and uses its flatulence as a jet engine and its erection as a compass. It is often referred to as “the farting corpse movie”. Their second film is just as idiosyncratic and just as ribald. Everything Everywhere All at Once is the story of a Chinese-Amer...

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Staff reporters 01 Apr 2025