Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023) by Justin Chang for Los Angeles Times — 14 Apr 2023
Beau Is Afraid offers arresting confirmation of Aster’s talent and fresh evidence of his limitations. It’s a big, wildly ambitious swing of a movie, one that seems eager to liberate itself and its characters from the conventions of form and genre.
But that more expansive energy is at odds with and ultimately constrained by the story’s mother/man-child dialectic.
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This review of Beau Is Afraid (2023) was written by Justin Chang and published by Los Angeles Times on 14 Apr 2023.
Beau Is Afraid has generally received positive reviews.
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