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.

“Nightmare comedy” is the perfect phrase to describe Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid, a darkly funny Kafkaesque odyssey that defies easy categorization. T...

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...

28/04/2023 - Joaquin Phoenix is the perennially anxious mama’s boy in Ari Aster’s grim, often hilarious follow-up to Midsommar and Hereditary

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

In his latest film, director Ari Aster indulges himself, punishes his title character played by Joaquin Phoenix and bores the audience.

A review of Ari Aster's latest film Beau Is Afraid with Joaquin Phoenix as a paranoid man trying to get back to see his mother -- but with obstacles.

Joaquin Phoenix and director Ari Aster are two great tastes who make bad taste together.

Ari Aster's biggest swing yet in Beau Is Afraid was the movie he wanted to make before Hereditary and Midsommar. You feel it in a work that's far less discip...

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

Género: Drama | Sinopsis: Biopic de Chevalier de Saint-Georges, hijo de una esclava africana que alcanzó el éxito en la sociedad francesa del siglo XVIII ...

“This is the stuff of Kafka, of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled, or of those recurring dreams you have where you simply can’t get to the corner shop be...

Writer-director Ari Aster follows the much-applauded ‘Hereditary’ and ‘Midsommar’ with a $35mn Oedipal odyssey

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," ...

Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster's scattered third feature.

Joaquin Phoenix and Patti LuPone wring out the horror and humor in this mother-son drama from A24.

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

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

Ari Aster's new horror is totally off-the-wall

In Ari Aster’s latest freakout, Joaquin Phoenix plays a sad sack who endures a crucible of suffering to see his monstrous mother. Paging Dr. Freud!

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.

Joaquin Phoenix stars in the new film by Ari Aster.

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

Looking to watch one of the most terrifying horror movies ever made? Well, dim the lights, grab the popcorn, and settle in. It's about to get very scary.

Get ready for a wild journey.

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...

Ari Aster's alt-reality, distopian film is a wonderful take on Oedipal misery and the horror of drug abuse

Ari Aster's ambitious, weird surreal, freaky new film, 'Beau Is Afraid,' starring Joaquin Phoenix, is challenging but hilariously twisted.

★☆☆☆☆Well, it was fun while it lasted. For a while Ari Aster was the next big thing. With the chilling Hereditary and the masterly Midsommar, he be...

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?