"Midsommar" is an upsetting movie, and I mean that word in pretty much every way you can think of. Writer/director Ari Aster's second horror feature, after "Hereditary," upsets because of the ...

In “Midsommar,” Aster’s reach is even bolder — he has made a sun-dappled socio-pagan cult nightmare that connects to our time in ways that explode in your head long after the movie is over.

That's the general gist of "Midsommar" (in theaters nationwide Wednesday), which is less a horror movie than it is the most deranged relationship drama you've ever seen. The movie is writer ...

Aster's new movie, Midsommar, doesn't pack quite as terrifying a knockout punch, but it casts its own weirdly hypnotic spell. This is a slow-burning and deeply absorbing piece of filmmaking ...

This story contains full SPOILERS for Midsommar! Ari Aster's movie Midsommar, the follow-up to his 2018 critical hit Hereditary, is partly an open homage to folk horror films (à la The Wicker Man ...

Our detailed walkthrough of all the new footage in Ari Aster's director's cut argues that "Midsommar" is even better than it was before. On July 3, Ari Aster’s “Midsommar” was released on ...

Ari Aster's sprawling cult thriller takes a lot of big swings, but the underlying vision is hard to shake. “Midsommar” begins with a traumatic event and ends on a perverse sex scene, capped ...

Hereditary': Why you don't want to miss the freakiest horror movie in years From Chucky to Annabelle: Summer's scariest movie villains, ranked “Midsommar” is not scary per se, though it is a ...

Dani becomes May Queen and sacrifices Christian in Midsommar's grim final ceremony. The Hrga commune operates on strict rules for aging and breeding, with ritualistic practices. The movie's ending ...

At long last, “Midsommar” asks the cinematic question we’ve all been waiting for: How, precisely, does one say “completely bonkers” in Swedish? Fans of highfalutin horror have been await ...