The critics are simply wrong

Rating: 3/10 (12 June 2018)

The critics are simply wrong about Hereditary. It does not work. The audience with whom I saw the film today was laughing at what were supposed to be the most dramatic scenes. And they were correct to laugh. It is the dialogue. It is as though the screenwriters composed a 'first draft' and then inexplicably decided that it was 'good enough'. Worse still is the fact that the film is overlong by at least 30 minutes, the entire middle of the film is truly sleep inducing. The acting? It's fine. Fine for what the actors had to work with. T. Collette and Gabriel Byrne as the family's parents deserve far better. Truth is, the only reason I stayed with the film (three times I was tempted to leave) is that the professional reviewers praised it so highly I thought ... it's got to get better. It doesn't. Rent 'The Exorcist'. Rent 'Rosemary's Baby'. You'll be better off.