Turns out, bad boyfriends and scary pagan rituals make for an intoxicating mix.

Ari Aster follows up last year's Hereditary with another slice of terror.

Read the Empire Movie review of Midsommar. A visceral, unique, utterly fucked-up experience that demands to be seen on the big screen,...

Fun in the sun: Ari Aster’s folk horror flick is a many-splendored—and many-categoried—thing

Review: Florence Pugh shines in Ari Aster’s remarkable slow-burning horror-comedy

The setting of “Midsommar,” a luxuriant deep-tissue freakout from writer-director Ari Aster, is a picturesque commune in Hälsingland, Sweden, that is ho...

Ari Aster's folk-horror flick is frightening, beautiful, and just a little unhinged.

Like it or hate it, you can go away claiming it is not like anything you’ve ever seen before.

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The sneaky hex Aster casts has that tight of a grip, on both the characters and the audience.

"Midsommar" is a masterpiece of the horror genre and a parable about the struggles of living with mental illness

What the opening murder/suicide of Dani’s (Florence Pugh) parents and sister brings to bear on the Swedish vacation that follows is negligible. It’s incl...

'Midsommar' director Ari Aster is interested in extremities, and knows just when to deploy one to enhance another.

Ari Aster is one of the slyer jokers to arrive in the movie business for a while.

Ari Aster’s follow-up to his wrenching debut renders the mundane gloom of a breakup as a Technicolor thriller.

Ari Aster wants you to know you’re screwed–that is, if you’re on the wrong side of a deal with demons or deities. In the wake of last year’s wickedly...

Ari Aster’s follow-up to ’Hereditary’ is a sunshine-and-flowers-filled nightmare where all hell breaks loose at a Swedish solstice festival.