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By Tomris Laffly (460) for TheWrap (3,203) on 10 Apr 2023

Admittedly, it’s all a bit much, an exercise in familial grief, inherited burdens and compressed feelings of guilt, but that excess is entirely…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Nick Allen (397) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 Apr 2023

Beau Is Afraid, an enveloping fantasy laced with mommy issues, is about being doomed from birth. It's Aster’s funniest movie yet…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 10 Apr 2023

Few movies have ever so boldly explored how fraught the safety of unconditional love can be in such a cruel world, and even fewer — including…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Apr 2023

It’s Phoenix who keeps you glued even through the film’s sometimes challenging longueurs, in a performance as fully, insanely committed…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 10 Apr 2023

Beau is Afraid is big, and weird, and kind of wonderful…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Jordan Farley (104) for Total Film (3,532) on 10 Apr 2023

Like many an auteur filmmaker’s passion project, it’s a huge swing that doesn’t always fully connect, and one that undoubtedly peaks…

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By Brianna Zigler (58) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 10 Apr 2023

Beau Is Afraid is very much a black comedy that utilizes well-placed horror techniques–Aster has a solid command of tension and loves to…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 10 Apr 2023

The movie starts with the volume cranked to 10, then never takes a breath. At three hours it is unbearable…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 10 Apr 2023

Joaquin Phoenix is on really uninteresting form, playing to his weaknesses as an actor as he gives a narcissistic performance of pain, sporting…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 10 Apr 2023

The issue here isn’t the moment-to-moment loopiness…

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Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Fran Hoepfner (33) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 Apr 2023

Beau Is Afraid relies on subverting expectations so frequently that its twists become predictable, if not rote…

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