Florence Pugh, Midsommar
After Hereditary, writer-director Ari Aster made another chilling film with a memorable leading performance—Pugh’s layered, devastating dissection of grief, frustration, and fury, ending in one of cinema’s all-time great (and most flower-bedecked) cathartic moments—which, similarly, was met with a shrug by a certain purveyor of golden statuettes.
