Beau is Afraid opens in theaters on April 21, 2023. More comedies from American studios should be three-hour surrealist horror odysseys steeped in grief and guilt. Or at least, more of them should be ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Director Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid amps up the comedic absurdity to tell a haunting story about coping with ...

Mommy is a cockblocker. The premise is a classic—it’s the basis for Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint,” for one, which is personal, detailed, stylish, historically informed, culturally insightful, ...

A sickly picaresque guilt trip that stretches a single Jewish man’s swollen neuroses into a three-hour nightmare so queasy and personal that sitting through it feels like being a guest at your own ...

Gird your loins, your bladder, and your relationship with your therapist: Beau Is Afraid is coming. Here's a little bit of what the critics said about the film, with minimal plot spoilers and some ...

With a muffled howl and a dull boom, “Beau Is Afraid” gets under way. What are we listening to? Are we in a U-boat, perhaps, with depth charges exploding nearby and the hull beginning to crack?

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The production designer behind A24’s Beau Is Afraid knew that the Ari Aster film was going to leave people ...

Beau Is Afraid is now available to rent at home. This story was originally published in April, and contains major spoilers for Beau Is Afraid. If the online discourse surrounding Beau Is Afraid is any ...

This article contains significant Beau Is Afraid spoilers. He stands alone in front of a judging audience. One might even say he’s been alone his whole life, if not for the persistent specter of his ...

The titular protagonist of “Beau Is Afraid” endures a lot of trauma. As embodied by Joaquin Phoenix in a permanent state of shock and dread, the character inhabits an apartment surrounded by hooligans ...

If you’ve just watched Ari Aster’s new horror-comedy “Beau Is Afraid,” you probably have a few questions. Or maybe a lot of questions. Like, what was that? As with his previous films, 2018’s ...

In this article, Beau is a-spoiled. In an Ari Aster movie, the best thing that can happen is losing your head. Not literally, of course, although the Midsommar auteur is notoriously fond of literally ...