Lord_Buscemi’s review published on Letterboxd:
Many premonitory details are dropped throughout Hereditary. The significance that these motifs/hints have in the overall scheme of things is never underlined, and is instead integrated with understated, lingering clues that will keep attentive viewers guessing if they catch something strange and for others their inclusion will benefit the experience in retrospect. The film dwells in ambiguity for the first hour, with seemingly little supernatural elements but still an off-kilter tone looming - however, when Hereditary shifts gears from psychological drama to a more conventional horror (which isn't a bad thing, I mean conventional more in a genre-based sense, not that it ever crumbles to genericism), the methodically plotted revelations that had been planted from the beginning start to take the film into a direction that blurs the line between illusion and reality. Closure to our curiosity is given but we aren't handed any over-explanations, enough is still left on the table for analysis. The two halves (the slow burn miserability of the first half, and then the paranormal-rooted second half) complement each other well rather than contradict the conceit, unlike its detractors state. This is the sort of narratively intricate story of grief that I wanted Don't Look Now to be. The sense of anguish that Toni Collette expresses is more than palpable, no other performance will top it this year.