as with "Hereditary", the movie arrives at an operatic showdown that brings everyone together for a terrifying denouement, one made all the more upsetting by the jubilance in which it's pronounced
a breakup movie at its core, Midsommar doesn't evolve the folk horror genre in too many ways but it certainly twists and bends it to its harrowing will. You will be shocked, you will be devastated, and you will think about it long after the credits rol
"Midsommar" is ambitious, aesthetically gorgeous and freakish; as a horror, as crazy and freaking and bizarre as it is---and funny, really really absurdly and wickedly inappropriately amusing---it's honestly a bit rote with few significant surprises