Midsommar Review: It's Always Sunny In Swedish Hell

Writer and director Ari Aster has quickly developed a consistent motif, at least across his two feature-length movies so far (Hereditary, and now, Midsommar): grief, and the destructive ways that people deal with it. But Midsommar is far from a re-hashing of the story in Hereditary, even if it brushes many of the same themes and subjects--tragedy, family, inevitability, cults, and beyond.Where Hereditary was often almost unbearably dark, Midsommar is the opposite: unbelievably bright, almost al