Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023) by Richard Brody for The New Yorker — 18 Apr 2023
To set up the movie’s cagey diminution of the protagonist, Aster diminishes the protagonist’s world, too—he suppresses Beau’s identity in the interest of stoking synthetic effects and inflating a hollow and shallow spectacle.
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This review of Beau Is Afraid (2023) was written by Richard Brody and published by The New Yorker on 18 Apr 2023.
Beau Is Afraid has generally received positive reviews.
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