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In Beau Is Afraid, Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster turns in a dark, existential comedy of epic and surreal proportions, where the biggest monsters are in the mind.

If you’ve just watched Ari Aster’s new horror-comedy “Beau Is Afraid,” you probably have a few questions. Or maybe a lot of questions. Like, what was that?

Beau knows psychodrama.

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

Guilty as charged! “Beau Is Afraid,” three hours of bleak wonderment that feels, well, like three hours of bleak wonderment, Beau Wassermann awaits the start of his latest therapy session with a look that suggests a man awaiting his executioner. Played to the clammy hilt by Joaquin Phoenix, Beau speaks…

In Ari Aster’s new film “Beau is Afraid,” Joaquin Phoenix plays an anxious man in a rotten world who goes on a wildly weird journey, both Homeric and Oedipal, to his mother’s home

Ari Aster, the director behind modern horror smashes Midsommar and Hereditary has revealed his top five favourite horror movies

Ari Aster really doesn’t want to talk about “Beau Is Afraid.”

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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