Ari Aster knows that he’s got a peculiar hang-up about head trauma. One of the standout moments of the director’s breakthrough film, Hereditary, was the short, sharp shock of seeing a young girl’s ...

We had just one movie grabbing attention over the holiday weekend, Spider-Man: Far From Home. which had Spidey and his high school friends taking on a European summer excursion that turns pretty ...

A24 is celebrating the one-year anniversary of “Midsommar” this July by releasing Ari Aster’s 171-minute director’s cut on Blu-ray accompanied by a 62-page book of ritual artwork that was used in the ...

In Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” the devil is not an ugly monster hiding in the shadows—he is in the daylight, dressed in a white robe and a crown of flowers. The film takes place at a traditional festival ...

What passes as a plot can be related on the head of a darning needle. A mentally disturbed post-grad student named Dani (Florence Pugh) suffers a breakdown when her bi-polar sister murders both of ...

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A common claim by book snobs is that movies lack the depth and details that books can provide. In “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” the details exist, but there is no book to provide the audience a ...

Like Ari Aster’s 2018 directorial debut Hereditary, Midsommar is a slow burn, a uniquely crafted horror that demands insight—answers to questions like, “What the hell did I just watch?” In Midsommar ...

Ari Aster is a writer and director of cult movies—his two features, “Hereditary,” from 2018, and “Midsommar,” which opened last week, are both grotesque and gory dramas about cults. “Hereditary” ...

Midsommar (pronounced “midsummer”) is a cool, coy, and self-conscious movie, less an overt horror work than a young man’s art film with some vivid gore splashed throughout it. The premise finds its ...

Director Ari Aster breaks down some iconic scenes from the A24-produced features 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' as well as his newest film 'Eddington.' Get his full breakdown of how he brought the ...