Rating: 3/4 There’s little that scares humans more than knowing we lack control of our lives, except possibly, the inability to protect one’s children. H...

Toni Collette's burning inferno of a performance illuminates this extraordinary horror

Horror film about a family struggling with grief is terrific and terrifying. Toni Collette, Alex Wolff and Gabriel Byrne star.

Ari Aster's unnerving and artful debut stars Toni Collette as a woman tormented by her own mother's terrifying legacy, and uses a palette of haunted-...

Every year it seems like we get one horror film out of the festival circuit that gets called “the best/scariest horror film of the year.” This year, it i...

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy noted in a sentence so right, by the time you started arguing with it...

Modern classic. No bones about it.

Toni Collette headlines Hereditary, a family horror that's a terrifying masterpiece. Here's our review...

Ari Aster conjures pure terror in his feature debut. Read the Empire review.

Collette grounds what most people might dismiss as just a "scary movie" with real dramatic power and force.

Directed by Ari Aster

A dissenting view of the horror movie that has enthralled most critics

Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne play parents left grappling with a terrifying legacy following the family matriarch's death in writer-director Ari Aster's ho...

The fright factor here comes less from the shrieks, decapitations and simmering undercurrent of violence than from the grief and doubt that we read in Colle...

This A24-produced haunted house, a Sundance premiere, movie hails from a familiar tradition — but hits all the right scary notes.

Toni Collette plays a woman slowly losing her grip after the death of her mother in the effective horror movie 'Hereditary.'

Review: Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette and Milly Shapiro shine in a genuinely horrifying film

Grief has a demonic presence in Hereditary.

A candlelit seance. A spooky child. A house filled with dark memories and buried secrets.

A painful sense of impending dread fills every frame of Ari Aster’s searing cinematic debut.

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The best of this season’s scary flicks resist the temptation to grandstand.

Yes, "Hereditary" will make you shriek and squirm, but it's also an astounding combination of family drama and occult power, with an award-worthy performance...

Ari Aster’s film, starring Toni Collette, is genuinely terrifying, but that’s not what gives it its power.

Ari Aster’s absurdly accomplished debut is the best horror movie of the year so far. You could make a good argument for it being the best horror movie of t...

Toni Collette stars as a mother facing diabolical family issues in Ari Aster’s debut feature.

Begged by the distributor not to reveal the banal surprises that await you, I will only say that Toni Collette has never appeared more deranged.

Sometimes I do things that are dumb. The dumbest thing I've done lately? WILLINGLY CHOOSING TO WATCH HEREDITARY. Oh, am I six months late to this conversatio...

To the extent that slow-burn horror movies are aboutatmosphere, Hereditary has many ofthem beaten. Using the camerawork of Pawel Pogorzelski and the music of...

A review of Ari Aster's terrifying "Hereditary," premiered at Sundance and coming out from A24 later this year.

Creepy beyond belief.

“Hereditary” is a horror film that features ghosts, a Satanic cult, grisly deaths, flies, possession and seances, children imperiled, nightmare sequences...

'Hereditary' follows a family suffering from grief into the realm of the supernatural – and turns into a modern horror masterpiece. Our review.

Chilling slice of neo-American gothic is in the same vein as horror classics Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, and features a career-best performance from ...

Ari Aster’s directorial debut is packed with disturbing imagery and psychological terror, and is most definitely not for the faint of heart.

'Impeccable dread and lingering melancholy' infuse this terrific horror debut from A24

The only false note in Hereditary — which despite the hype is far from the scariest horror film since The Exorcist but may be the most horrifying — comes...

Ari Aster’s debut film stars Toni Collette as a mother besieged by fears of a family curse.

The recent surge of a particular brand of arthouse horror, favoring tension- and character-building over blood-fueled gonzo insanity, has found at a home in ...

This terrifying horror movie will take up residence in your mind for days, even weeks later

Sometimes a horror film comes along that you just feel will change the game. Ari Aster's "Hereditary" is just that movie.

Its slow-build tension and merciless shocks are unbeatable

Toni Collette gives an extraordinary performance in this moody, creepy psychological thriller

Collette's performance is the movie's most haunting effect

Writer/director Ari Aster's debut 'Hereditary' is a deeply unsettling horror tale about a family learning its darkest secrets that doubles as a showcase for ...

The film is emotionally and intellectually terrifying, if not a traditional horror movie.

Ari Aster's deeply spooky film, starring a bravura Toni Collette, is a thriller about the scariest ghosts of all: the spirits within.

One family’s descent into hell makes for a terrifying, deeply unsettling ride.

Writer-director Ari Aster’s debut film is brilliantly horrible — cruel to the point of invasiveness.

Hereditary is so scary relatives five generations back will be able to sense your fear.