Beau Is Afraid

Reviews

• "Aster’s most divisive effort yet, but those willing to ride the wave of genre and mind-bending insanity will find themselves rewarded by a profoundly imaginative Kafkaesque odyssey as dementedly funny as it is often horrifying."
  - Bloody Disgusting
• "It’s a huge, huge swing, and Aster skeptics will likely scoff at the egotism of it all. But for those of us who’ve been at the receiving end of a classic Jewish-mother guilt trip, BEAU IS AFRAID will serve as affirmation, cinematic therapy, and the most relatably terrifying thing they’ve ever seen."
  - Consequence
• "Though this may share a certain anything-goes absurdity and deliriousness with another recent A24 hit, the fact that the studio has now given us that Oscar-winner’s evil twin is itself a riotous hoot. This is the anti-Everything Everywhere All at Once."
  - Rolling Stone
• "A sickly picaresque guilt trip that stretches a single Jewish man’s swollen neuroses into a three-hour nightmare so queasy and personal that sitting through it feels like being a guest at your own bris (in a fun way!)."
  - IndieWire
• "BEAU IS AFRAID may not be a horror film in the same sense as “Hereditary” and “Midsommar,” but it’s a different kind of horror, one that will challenge, alienate and push people out of their comfort zones."
  - Next Best Picture