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    Why is 'Hereditary' such a hit with critics — and an apparent flop with audiences?

    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Jun 12, 2018 2 minutes

    The report cards are in, and the critically lauded "Hereditary" is one crummy letter grade away from having failed the average American moviegoer.

    The average American moviegoers apparently expected a different/scarier/better horror movie than this one. Are the critics who admired it just a bunch of buttheads? Are multiplex audiences too jaded to appreciate its bizarre, slow-building atmospheric tension?

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