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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 14 Apr 2023

The film shares some of the unsettling horror of Aster’s first two films, Hereditary and Midsommar, but I’d call Beau Is Afraid a more…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Apr 2023

Beau Is Afraid offers arresting confirmation of Aster’s talent and fresh evidence of his limitations…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Rodrigo Perez (382) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Apr 2023

Ultimately, Aster just unleashes his inner freak and vomits it all on the screen, with anxious flop sweat, jittery bodily fluids, squishy terror,…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 13 Apr 2023

Despite these attractions and in spite of Phoenix’s aura and his focus — and how he plays with the character, opening Beau up a wee bit…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Hannah Strong (63) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 12 Apr 2023

It’s not an entirely unpleasant journey, but the film does have a jarring, unfinished feel to it, and while the detail-oriented might find…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Apr 2023

With Beau Is Afraid, his third and easily most ambitious feature to date, Ari Aster traces, to more cosmic and absurd ends, how tragedy is…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By John Nugent (191) for Empire (3,446) on 11 Apr 2023

The reach of this avant-garde comic meltdown sometimes exceeds its grasp, but this is still a consistently jaw-dropping joyride through one…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 11 Apr 2023

Whatever LuPone is doing, it’s undeniable…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Apr 2023

Three hours doesn’t feel at all reasonable for such an uneven collection of sketches…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 11 Apr 2023

It’s the most magnificent act of oversharing you’ll see all year, a banquet of all the TMI you can eat, just for the price of a ticket…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Clint Worthington (295) for Consequence (296) on 10 Apr 2023

It’s a huge, huge swing, and Aster skeptics will likely scoff at the egotism of it all…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 10 Apr 2023

While this psychodrama satirises our tendency to scapegoat our parents for our own failings, Aster is even more searing when he takes Beau’s…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 10 Apr 2023

There’s a lot of Big Cinema Energy pouring out of the screen, which alternates between thrilling and exhausting…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for IGN (1,013) on 10 Apr 2023

It’s the kind of movie worth recommending for its ambition alone, merely to witness the audacious result of anxious self-loathing writ large…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 10 Apr 2023

A true American original, and proof that, while the hype surrounding [Aster] may have been early, it wasn’t wrong…

Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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