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Beau knows psychodrama.

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

We've seen some big hits released in 2023, but The Super Mario Bros. Movie has done something no other blockbuster has.

The first word we see written down in "Beau Is Afraid," Ari Aster's raging Oedipal phantasmagoria of a movie, is "Guilt," with a capital "G." It's not the last word to pop up in a story full of angry scribblings, earnest love notes, slick corporate logos, detailed sex-shop menus, foulmouthed…

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There are definitely no rom-coms in Joaquin Phoenix's future.

Reviews are in for Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix. See why critics are calling it a "fascinating," three-hour "panic attack."

‘From his darkest fears comes the greatest adventure'. So goes the tagline for Beau is Afraid, Ari Aster’s 179-minute follow-up to his landmark 21st-century horrors Hereditary and Midsommar. With all due respect to the marketing department at A24, rarely has a pithy tagline – and the whimsical, Benjamin Button-esque poster…

This three-plus-hour tale of Oedipal misery sees Phoenix on uncharacteristically boring form, and ultimately collapses into silliness