Midsommar's reviews
Media reviews
Empire
A visceral, unique, utterly f**ked-up experience that demands to be seen on the big screen, 'Midsommar' is the horror movie to beat in 2019. Caution: contains distressing amounts of folk music.
The Guardian
It?s a thoroughly enjoyable film, a crescendo of paranoid trippiness building to an uproarious grossout in its final moments.
Time Out
A savage yet evolved slice of Swedish folk-horror, Ari Aster's hallucinatory follow-up to 'Hereditary' proves him a horror director with no peer.
Entertainment Weekly
Like the fretful violins that stagger raggedly over the soundtrack, the skin-pricking pleasures of 'Midsommar' aren?t rational, they?re instinctive: a thrilling, seasick freefall into the light.
Indiewire
Aster refashions 'The Wicker Man' as a perverse breakup movie, douses Swedish mythology in Bergmanesque despair, and sets the epic collage ablaze. He may not land every big swing, but the underlying vision is hard to shake even when it falters.
The Hollywood Reporter
More unsettling than frightening, it's still a trip worth taking.
Vulture
The most ambitious horror blurs the line between the psychological and the mythic, between ordinary human emotions and symbol-laden Blakean nightmares, and Aster is very ambitious and very blurry.
The Playlist
Admirable, ambitious and impressive, but ultimately aloof, 'Midsommar' has its delights for sure, but it lacks the emotional depth to match the sharp insights it has into the evils of the ambivalent, wishy-washy relationship (run as fast as you can).
Aster is obsessed with building tension to the point of losing the plot. He can?t stop at merely glancing or suggesting.
The Washington Post
Only the most committed Aster-pologists are likely to enjoy 'Midsommar' at its fullest; others, meanwhile, may admire its handsome visual design and bravura performances without completely buying in to the alternately diseased and fuzzy fable at its core.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote