Peter Travers reviews "Beau Is Afraid," starring Joaquin Phoenix, out April 21.

Beau Is Afraid review: irritating and uncomfortable, by design

Joaquin Phoenix plays a troubled, intense man trying to get home in Ari Aster's disturbing 'Beau Is Afraid.' Amy Ryan and Patti LuPone also star.

Joaquin Phoenix stars in A24's three-hour sprawl of angst and despair from Ari Aster, the director of Hereditary and Midsommar. It's a "bewildering folly", w...

Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) sets off on a pseudo-surreal journey through the United States to visit his overbearing mother in Ari Aster’s long-winded Oedipal epic.

Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane, and Patti LuPone costar in this latest film from Ari Aster, the writer-director of "Midsommar." Mother’s Day is less than a month aw...

Joaquin Phoenix overacts his way through an ugly, heavy-handed epic from ‘Midsommar’ director Ari Aster.

Beau is Afraid demonstrates to audiences that the Hereditary and Midsommar director previously held back the full scale of his surrealist inclinations. And t...

Guilty as charged! “Beau is Afraid,” three hours of bleak wonderment that feels, well, like three hours of bleak wonderment, Beau Wassermann awaits the s...

★★★☆☆ Sometimes, it’s tough being really skilled at one thing in particular. Having flown out the blocks with two supremely good, bonafide hit ho...

Parental guilt is at the center of Ari Aster's pitch-black comic odyssey Beau Is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Read our review.

Joaquin Phoenix is a man losing his grip on reality. Read Empire's review.

Let's get trippy!

Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane and Parker Posey also star in this pitch-dark existential horror comedy about an emotional wreck on a painfully conflicte...

Both widely popular horror directors have followed up terrific debut features with overindulgent films.

Ari Aster’s follow-up to ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Midsommar’ is a drawn-out, paranoid spiral

Ari Aster directs Joaquin Phoenix in "Beau Is Afraid," out from A24 on April 14. Read IndieWire's review by David Ehrlich.

This new horror starring Joaquin Phoenix and Patti LuPone is a building panic attack of a film - but its bloated, self-indulgent three-hour runtime lets it down

Ari Aster adeptly juggles the sort of laughs you get from Samuel Beckett with the sort you encounter in Mel Brooks

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Christy Lemire and Lael Loewenstein review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand plat...

“We’re here so we can air those types of thoughts.” That’s a therapist speaking to Beau Wassermann (Joaquin Phoenix) early on in Beau Is Afraid, enco...

Joaquin Phoenix plays a man dreading a visit to see his mother in this latest and most wildly unhinged feature from writer-director Ari Aster ("Hereditary," ...

While Ari Aster’s third film was in production, it was rumoured to be titled Disappointment Boulevard – a tidbit that was debunked when its release date…

Ari Aster’s latest has a mother complex and a sense of spectacle but no inner life.

Ari Aster’s Oedipal horror, starring Joaquin Phoenix, is filled with nervous wreckage, and leaves the unsettling sense of having stumbled upon an extended ...

After Midsommar and Hereditary, Ari Aster has added some explicit comedy to his horror with his third, epic film. Our Beau Is Afraid Review:

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

Ari Aster’s “Beau is Afraid” is an inscrutable thriller scripted and directed with the confidence of a filmmaker whose “Hereditary” and “Midsomme...

‘Midsommar’ director drops the ‘Joker’ star into an Oedipal nightmare. It’s either the most terrifying comedy or the funniest horror movie of 2023.

Director Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix unite to deliver an audacious odyssey for the titular main character

'Beau Is Afraid' traces, to cosmic and absurd ends, how tragedy is birthed by, well, birth itself.

Our Beau is Afraid review looks at the strange, funny new movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Ari Aster.

Beau is cowardly, insecure, and full of psychosexual angst. He’s also a brilliant hero.

Ari Aster’s latest A24 release is a daunting, challenging horror-comedy that sends Joaquin Phoenix through a three-hour surrealistic nightmare—as origina...

There is a succinct, incredible moment of catharsis at the conclusion of Ari Aster’s feature debut Hereditary when one of its beleaguered, terrified protag...

Phoenix is asked to carry an entire universe’s worth of pain and pent-up psychosis as Beau, and completely transforms himself into the world’s unhappiest...

The director’s latest, ‘Beau Is Afraid,’ has inspired just as much awe as outright anger—which, stomach-churning sequences aside, you gotta respect

Joaquin Phoenix delivers one of his career-best performances as a guilt-ridden man on an epic journey in Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid.

Ari Aster's latest movie is a bleak black comedy that’s very occasionally hilarious, though mostly just tedious

Not a whole lot makes sense in "Beau Is Afraid" and that's sort of the bizarre beauty of Joaquin Phoenix's dark comedy about an epic trip back home.

Joaquin Phoenix goes on a psychosexual odyssey in ‘Hereditary’ director Ari Aster’s new film.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix as a simpering man-child, 'Beau Is Afraid' reflects what happens when a gifted artist is given too much creative freedom.

The Hereditary director, never a horror guy, has left the genre behind for Beau Is Afraid — so why does his new film feel less open?