Hereditary

Aster's first feature, and it opens on a doll's house before pulling into a real room, which tells you the thesis: these people are being arranged.

The first hour is a family after a bereavement and it is unbearable before anything supernatural happens. The dinner-table scene where Annie finally says out loud what she thinks about her son is the loudest thing in the film and there is no monster in it.

Then there is the telephone pole. The sequence that follows, the drive home, the boy in the car, the unbroken shot of him lying in bed until morning light, then the cut, is the best-directed passage in modern horror and it is over before the audience has caught up.

Toni Collette is doing the work of her career and was not nominated for an Academy Award, which is the most cited example of the genre bias.

The last act loses some people because it explains itself. Whether the explanation is a betrayal or the point is the argument about it.