Hereditary

Creepy beyond belief, "Hereditary" is one of those movies you shouldn't describe in detail, because if you do, it will not only ruin surprises but make the listener wonder if you saw the film or dreamed it.

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Collette gives a terrific, hypnotic performance as a harried mother facing down family evil in Ari Aster’s rivetingly shot horror debut

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After the death of her “difficult” mother Ellen, miniature-model artist and mother of two Annie Graham (Toni Collette) feels oddly unsettled. While relieved by her parent’s passing, she becomes insecure about her own maternal aptitude, and starts suspecting there maybe something sinister behind her family’s intensifying woes.

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Toni Collette gives a virtuoso performance in a terrifying horror drama that defies expectations.

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Ari Aster's disturbing spook show, featuring a bravura Toni Collette, is a domestic thriller about the scariest ghosts of all: the spirits within.

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This is a remarkable, triumphant, and confident picture by Aster, who gives the film an almost meditative-like sensation, as you feel every space you’re in, every emotion, every moment of grief. “Hereditary” refuses to employ cheap thrills, creating its cinematic scares with atmosphere, and continuously reinventing itself at every turn.

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Toni Collette is scary good in the terrifying Hereditary

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Hereditary is so scary relatives five generations back will be able to sense your fear.

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Hereditary is a flawless example of slow-burn horror. It stands with and above the best contemporary horror domestic dramas, like Kill List and A Dark Song, and alongside true classics, like The Haunting and The Innocents. And that damn clucking sound will haunt you.

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The Artfully Made Hereditary Is the Latest Horror Film to Elevate the Genre

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Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne play parents left grappling with a terrifying legacy following the family matriarch's death in writer-director Ari Aster's horror debut.

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Family is a curse in the harrowing, deeply frightening Hereditary

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Toni Collette reveals a sixth sense for icy terror

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'Hereditary' hype is real: It's insanely scary and impossible to shake off

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Story of a family suffering from grief – and something vaguely supernatural – is an instant scary-movie classic

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His directorial debut has its faults, but the combination of slow-build tension and intense, merciless shocks is unbeatable

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The film, Mr. Aster’s debut feature, is engaging, unsettling and unpredictable, generating a mood of anxious fascination punctuated by frequent shocks and occasional nervous giggles. But I also found it a bit disappointing.

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Ari Aster’s film, starring Toni Collette, is genuinely terrifying, but that’s not what gives it its power.

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Despite the third act misgivings, Aster, along with expert work from cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski, exhibits a promising, methodical form in his presentation of terror.

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Toni Collette gives an extraordinary performance in this moody, creepy psychological thriller

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In writer-director Ari Aster’s smugly agitating feature debut, the devil is certainly in the hackneyed details.

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