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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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Midsomar: A Comedy About Anxiety

The film is more of an anxiety comedy than it was in its original perceptions. There are so many fleeting sight gags that maybe laugh out loud. The central thing is, what if your mother could hear all those things you say about her in therapy? That seemed to me to be sort of the heart of the nightmare gag.

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