Dear reader, I’m delighted to tell you that, if you’ve ever been at a social function and had to hear someone utter the words, “Toni Collette should’ve been nominated for an Oscar for ‘Hereditary,’” you may be entitled to compensation. (Smaller monetary rewards may be awarded to those who have seen similar sentiments on social media. Please record your responses and tie them to the foot of a carrier pigeon, in care of me; the pigeon will know where to bring it.) It’s not that Collette’s performance in Ari Aster’s 2018 horror film is so bad that it’s worthy of a class action lawsuit, but rather, that her work is so incredibly good that hearing about how Collette was robbed of a nomination has become utterly banal. Anyone who’s seen the film knows it firsthand, and anyone who hasn’t has prob
Horror doesn’t need the Academy’s permission to matter

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