Part fairytale, part break-up movie, Ari Aster’s twisted cult horror will surely stand the test of time.

| Jan 18, 2025

Midsommar is ambitious, well-acted, meticulously crafted, and thematically strong, but it fails at being what it’s supposed to be: a scary movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 6, 2025

All you need to know going into this transgressive (if surrealistic) film is that it covers: animal abuse, cannibalism, incest, suicide, matricide, homicide, and some serious fucking. My work here is done. Get thee thinking cap on.

| Original Score: FOUR STARS | Sep 28, 2024

Midsommar is packed with reminders that if a film succeeds in depicting the darkness within vividly, then a sunshine-y environment can make the experience even more unnerving. Because viewers have nowhere to hide.

| Aug 27, 2024

In this immersive, subtle and unsettling horror master-work, Ari Aster takes his audience by the hand, and slowly and surely introduces the disturbing beneath the festive, relaxing and innocent.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2024

If you’re searching for a memorable breakup film—summer love rarely lasts—look no further than what Ari Aster offers here. Better yet, Midsommar would also make for quite a bonding experience when watched with a date…

| Jul 25, 2024

Sure, it has just as much to say about our ignorance toward other cultural rituals (using Swedish folklore), but as a horror film about a failing relationship, Midsommar kind of broke me.

| Jul 9, 2024

…’Get on with it’ would be a more appropriate title for Ari Aster’s glacially slow horror film, a follow up to Hereditary that repeats many of the same dread-inducing tropes but with a remarkable drop-off in terms of effect….

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 24, 2024

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

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| Jul 19, 2023

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

| Jun 5, 2023

Oh my god. What a movie. Unforgettable.

| 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.

| 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.”

| 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.

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

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

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

One dizzying, hilarious trip into hell.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 15, 2021

Midsommer is a tasty treat for horror fans.

| Jul 23, 2021