Midsommar
A24 | Release Date: July 3, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 54 Critic Reviews
Positive:
42
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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60
The New York TimesManohla DargisJul 2, 2019
Despite all the time he lavishes on Dani and Christian’s relationship, which is drawn along stereotypical gendered lines (consuming female need that becomes devouring), the couple remains instructively uninteresting. That’s the case despite Pugh. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJun 27, 2019
The stuff about this couple in decline is lacerating and painful in the best and most hilarious ways possible. The stuff about the solstice is standard horror fare made unfurled, with exceptional craft, at a snail’s pace. And the longer Midsommar goes, the further it gets from the pain and the loss that fueled its emotional core, until it has lost touch with the things that made it special. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJun 19, 2019
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. Read full review
58
Original-CinKaren GordonJul 2, 2019
From very early in the film, we have a sense where it’s all going. With no real narrative surprises then, the movie becomes all about the characters and the journey. Aster’s playing out of the journey is problematic. Read full review
58
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJun 19, 2019
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). Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedJul 8, 2019
Grim, grisly and downright sickening, Midsommar is a feel-bad horror film about suicide, mercy killings, insanity, graphic nudity, religious hysteria, and the kind of grotesque imagery that exists for no other reason than shock value. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 2, 2019
Don’t be misled by the middling rating attached to this review. Midsommar is anything but mediocre. It’s horrible and brilliant, a crashing failure but one with many good moments. What do you say about a movie that’s both a disgusting, tiresome and predictable endurance test and an irrefutable demonstration of real directorial talent? Perhaps, this: Ari Aster is definitely someone who should be making movies. But maybe not this movie. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 27, 2019
Aster is obsessed with building tension to the point of losing the plot. He can’t stop at merely glancing or suggesting. Read full review
50
TheWrapCandice FrederickJun 19, 2019
None of its core characters, including the female protagonist (played by Florence Pugh, “Fighting With My Family”), make any rational decisions (while being too distant to care about anyway). Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansJul 7, 2019
The film works better as a comedy than a horror, skewering its ignorant US tourists, and better still as a spiteful relationship drama. Read full review
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