The film's chilling lesson is timely.

| Mar 5, 2021

The open-ended stakes of these genre experiments are rebellious at a time when horror movie messaging can feel so heavy-handed.

| Mar 4, 2021

Toni Collette delivers a soul-shattering performance in Hereditary that reminds us how much sacrifice parenthood is and how deeply parents can scar their children, utterly beyond repair.

| Feb 7, 2019

It's an uneasy and visually well-crafted horror exploring our parental fears. It's also a film that, surprise, surprise, has split opinions among audiences and critics.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2018

Hereditary feels like an endless drawing out of that queasy, shocking, falling dream sensation, as the ground beneath the Graham family, and the viewer, crumbles.

| Aug 7, 2018

Toni Collette is flawless.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2018

Ride of pure terror? I've had more terrifying rides on the teacups at the fair.

| Jun 21, 2018

Gradually downshifts into generic cliche, abandoning well-mapped psychogeography for psychokinetic silliness and superfluous plot exposition.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2018

Hereditary might be regarded as a psychological or supernatural thriller, an insidious ghost story, a literal cult movie, or Rosemary's Baby (1968) after the infant has come of age. On any view, it is a diabolically assured debut.

| Jun 15, 2018

The results are horrific, emotionally and aesthetically, and launch a corkscrew spin towards hell.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 15, 2018

Ari Aster’s superb psychological horror plays on one of the most powerful fears of all — the fear of turning into your parents.

| Jun 15, 2018

Being blindsided by fright might be fun in the moment, but it's the scares you can see coming that last.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 14, 2018

Hereditary is a hallmark in cinematic filmmaking, and still worth a watch, but the narrative prevents it from living up to its full potential.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 14, 2018

Hereditary may not be as terrifying as the advance hype has suggested but it's a provocative and subtle horror film with layers you don't find in more conventional haunted house tales.

| Jun 13, 2018

It's poorly paced, with a making-it-up-as-we-go feel; there's a difference between slow-burn and merely slow, and [director Ari] Aster hasn't grasped it yet.

| Jun 13, 2018

What I watched was a pushy, empurpled, same-with-a-twist screamer from the school of Rosemary's Baby.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2018

It's utterly terrifying - but in a way you can't quite put your finger on. Which means you will never, ever shake it off.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 13, 2018

This is serious, glorious, edge-of-your-seat horror.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 13, 2018

The young American writer-director has made a film that goes to a few places that no horror has previously ventured. And he does so elegantly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 13, 2018

A raw horror masterpiece from a first-time director that deserves to be mentioned in the same frantic breath as the genre's greats.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 12, 2018