If you’ve been too scared to check out the A24 auteur’s movies, is this your chance? Or is it a trap?
goes light on the blood and guts. There’s some stabbing, some poisoning, and a bunch of machine-gun fire, but much of it’s played for comic effect rather than body horror. No one saws off their own head or gets ritualistically burned alive, and in Ari Aster Land, that’s getting off easy.
How long it stays under your skin may be a function of just how squarely you relate to the main character’s sexual dysfunction and general sense of unease—which is to say, whether you feel about your mother the way Beau does about his. That makes it hard to come up with an objective score here, so we’ve given the movie the same rating asPhoto illustration by Slate. Photo by A24.have you checking under the bed or looking over your shoulder as you walk down the street? Probably not.
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