This is a beautifully shot movie, and if there were a First Timers Who Have Figured Out Spielberg and Scorcese in One Go Award I would hand it to this man. The acting is also great, the ending is also weird. I appreciate, too, a so-called horror film that doesn't beg me to be afraid of it. Correction: the ending is profoundly weird. Hail that! But, uh...maybe put a good story into all of that. I liked Roma because it never asked me to hope for more; it promised sound and cinema and gave it to me. I spent a year wondering how afraid of Hereditary I should be, only to spend the 2nd of 2019 cackling at a third of it and jaw-agape at the other two thirds.

I suppose I'd like to disclaim that I don't like to be scared. So it's not that I wasn't scared. It's that these people lived in the Monica and Chandler apartment of homes, that that kid should not have gone to that party, that I think in 2018 kids shouldn't be afraid of smoking marijuana lest their parents induct a seance and murder each other, that I think maybe a totally sober tongue-clucking kid might still find a way to hide their head from a pole. But! It is so fun to watch and see and be around that part of me wonders how much I missed by being afraid of how afraid I was supposed to be and thus never seeing this in theaters.

Because, by golly, I laughed at this film. Many times. I don't think I was supposed to.


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