A truly horrifying riff on The Wicker Man where that movie's opposition of civilized modernity and unhinged paganism is swapped out with a nightmare version of pastoral that seems to have been violently corrupted by the tragedy that befalls Florence Pugh's protagonist in the opening scenes. There are moments of borderline-unwatchable gore (including a blood eagle, for aficionados of apocryphal Viking sadism), but ultimately what makes Midsommar so memorable is the tide of grief that swells underneath all the dread and shocks.
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Civil War 2024
There's a suite of genuinely compelling performances here, propulsive pacing that uses the road-movie format to good (if familiar) effect, immersive set-pieces and sound design, and a convincing, palpable sense of exhausted melancholy and moral attenuation.
There's also a lot less going on under the hood than the film would like the viewer to think, which is a problem when you're making a movie called 'Civil War' in America in the year of our Lord 2024. We get a lot…
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