The performances from Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor are extraordinary, with both carrying two halves of Asters heart and reality.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2024

As in his previous film, the familiar, spiritual and ritual outside the social canons of normativity will be present, as well as the horror genre fused with drama and mystery in that peculiar poetics that seems to characterize this autor.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 27, 2024

Whether you love it or hate it, Midsommar is memorable. Florence Pugh carries the story on her shoulders with an astonishingly compelling performance, but her supporting cast didn't do much with their underdeveloped characters.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2023

What’s particularly remarkable is the feeling of dread that Aster is able to sustain over most of Midsommar’s two-hour-plus running time. This despite the fact that virtually the entire story unfolds under sunny skies.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2023

Midsommar is all steak, no sizzle, and no real lessons are learned other than, maybe, ‘Screw your mansplaining boyfriend.'

Full Review | Jun 5, 2023

Oh my god. What a movie. Unforgettable.

Full Review | Mar 31, 2023

I did not like MidSommar as much as I appreciated its audacity and the skill that clearly went into making it. This was a stunning work of art that embraced excess with a few positive results.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2022

Is it a movie about grief, emasculation, mental health, spiritual awakening? The movie seems to inadvertently ask “Who cares? Just watch another unnerving scene where the creepy Swedish cult does something else bizarre.”

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Aster wields a two-pronged setup that pokes at feelings of anxiety about remote communities and their link to an untamed wilderness, while also presenting characters whose interpersonal drama underscores every potently disturbing situation in the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2022

Episode 42: Crawl / The Last Black Man in San Francisco / Chernobyl / Midsommar

Full Review | Original Score: 97/100 | Oct 4, 2021

One dizzying, hilarious trip into hell.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 15, 2021

Midsommer is a tasty treat for horror fans.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2021

Ari Aster's Hereditary follow-up is a genuinely disturbing tale of nature-worshiping pagans.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Bizarre is the main course in Midsommar, which serves as Florence Pugh's tour de force. A daylight horror movie that succeeds because of the efficiency of its first act. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 1, 2021

It's difficult to imagine Midsommar satisfying true horror fans, but if you're interested in witnessing some ultra-strange cult rituals, it more than fits that bill.

Full Review | Feb 18, 2021

... what it does to you is undeniable.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2021

Proof positive that not all scary stuff happens under the cover of darkness. Sometimes daylight can illuminate the true horror of a situation in even more terrifying ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

[Ari] Aster turns everyday living on its head...[Midsommar] offers up catharsis via grotesque apotheosis.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 29, 2021

Florence Pugh is strong in this sophomore effort from Ari Aster. While not as accomplished as his first film, his attention to detail, tone, and cinematography are superb.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 17, 2020

A vast improvement over the wildly overrated "Hereditary," director Ari Aster gives us a slow-burn of a horror film that gradually gets under the viewer's skin and proves hard to shake, even after the credits role.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 21, 2020