Ari Aster

[7] Writer/director Ari Aster left an impression with last year’s Hereditary and follows up with another slow-burn, visually beautiful movie with incredibly similar structure and subtext. Midsommar is about a young woman named Dani (Florence Pugh) who experiences the tragic death of her parents and sister shortly before embarking on a trip to Sweden where her boyfriend and his college buddies are going to study …

[7] Writer/director Ari Aster brings us one of the more original and interesting horror movies of the last few years — I just wish it moved faster than molasses in January. Toni Collette stars as a woman who finds herself simultaneously mourning the loss of her mother and concerned about the strange behavior of her young daughter. Turns out the two concerns are connected in …