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Midsommar

2019

Ari Aster

Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper ...

6.3

29,207

Horror. Mystery. Drama The story centers on a young woman, already dealing with the death of her parents, who joins her boyfriend and his friends on a trip to Sweden, specifically to a remote town with unique midsummer traditions. Things go south from there.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Photographed with extreme care, the film sometimes wears its ambitions on its sleeve(...) More unsettling than frightening, it's still a trip worth taking."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[The] visual sophistication provides a unifying force that often smoothes over its rougher passages (...) The movie loads up on striking details"	POS
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"It’s neither the masterpiece nor the disaster that the film’s most vocal viewers are bound to claim. Rather, it’s an admirably strange, thematically muddled curiosity from a talented filmmaker who allows his ambitions to outpace his execution"	NEU
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Its mannered style and sureness of theme, if not always execution, rattles you like a shake to the shoulders (...) 'Midsommar' might just be the year’s definitive take on the war of heterosexual coupling"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Sometimes hypnotic, sometimes overcooked, always intriguing (...) Aster’s bold flourishes occasionally fall flat, but Florence Pugh holds the film together — especially when its plotting stumbles or its shocks grow predictable"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Barkan Dread Central	"This is a dreamlike phantasmagoria that Aster cleverly manipulates, lulling the audience into a hypnotic state that allows the 140-minute runtime to pass by with unfettered ease (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"If you're looking for the scariest movie ever shot in blinding sunlight, the raw and riveting Midsommar is it.(...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Candice Frederick The Wrap	"[It] feels muddled and underwritten (...) A fine ensemble, led by Florence Pugh, gets stuck playing the kind of horror characters you want to slap for their stupidity"	NEU
United States	Haleigh Foutch Collider	"The end result is a surreal and surprisingly funny folk horror fairy tale that never quite taps into to-the-bone terror. Make no mistake, 'Midsommer' is still a visceral, overwhelming experience, but it’s more disturbing than terrifying"	POS
United States	David Edelstein Vulture	"An ambitious, blurry horror trip (...) Pugh is amazingly vivid (...) Perhaps 'Midsommar' doesn’t jell because its impulses are so bifurcated."	NEU
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"One of the year’s best films (...) The film clocks in at 140 minutes, and yet it flies by. Aster is not only a master of horror, he’s also a master of pacing"	POS
United States	William Bibbiani Bloody Disgusting	"[It] may be a spectacularly realized vision of relationship anxieties writ large, a drugged out descent into mania and madness, but it also takes an extremely long time to tell a very straightforward story (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Ari Aster's hallucinatory follow-up to 'Hereditary' proves him a scare master with no peer (...) [The director balances] explosive corporeal punishment (...) with eerie lulls (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"It has more virtuosity than vision (...) Despite all the time [Aster] lavishes on Dani and Christian’s relationship (...) the couple remains instructively uninteresting"	NEU
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"While 'Midsommar' never bores or truly overstays its welcome, its languor wobbles into meandering tonal shifts, with unlikely intrusions of absurdist humor. There are also a few leaps of logic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"The sneaky hex Aster casts has that tight a grip, on both the characters and the audience (...) The invigorating reward here is the ultimate sovereignty you will find in Dani (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"One of the year's strangest, most distressing, and most memorable films (...) It’s filled with ideas, images, and feelings that will stay with you long after the credits roll (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"[A] morbid masterpiece, full of electrifying performances, dialogue and camerawork. It encourages us to rethink suicide, euthanasia, mental illness and the atomised nature of urban existence (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a thoroughly enjoyable film, a crescendo of paranoid trippiness building to an uproarious grossout in its final moments (...) Pugh is very good (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Brian Lloyd entertainment.ie	"A compelling piece of folk horror and has some incredibly messed-up things to say about relationships, ritual, and the proud display of horrors dressed as religion (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"Florence Pugh shines in Ari Aster’s remarkable slow-burning horror-comedy (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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