'Hereditary' review: Toni Collette reveals a sixth sense for icy terror
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Jun 04, 2018
3 minutes
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy noted in a sentence so right, by the time you started arguing with it "Anna Karenina" was off and suffering.
If Tolstoy got a look at "Hereditary," he might've added: "Well. There's unhappy, and then there's grief-stricken-hideously cruel-unholy family secrets-horror movie-unhappy."
The latter is the dwelling place of director Ari Aster's fiendish feature debut. Not everything in "Hereditary" fits together; its rhythm is a
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