Atom User Reviews for Beau Is Afraid
What a ride.. clear your expectations, and open your mind. Then buckle up and hop on this ride with ari and Joaquin. One of those films that still has you thinking about it a couple of days later. Intense, incredible performances by the actors. Different and a bit wild.…
I left incredibly sweaty. A must watch.
Really liked the first half, then it just took a weird turn. Also, crazy long!
Incredible. Worth seeing on the big screen, it’s both insanely intense and uncomfortably hilarious.
Give me a few years to think about if I liked it or not
Worst movie ever I left halfway through
It was a crazy ride.
Really visually engaging film. Don’t go in with the intention of scrutinizing everything you’re given and you’ll enjoy the ride. The final act however is a LOT and throws off some of the momentum built up, but ultimately still quite exceptional
Wonderfully mad in the right ways.
A weirdly fun and often times funny film about a person with social anxiety. Don’t expect to understand all the symbolism in the film, just enjoy the journey.
I walked out the theater different than when i went in
a very bizarre and wild ride and that will leave you guessing and shocked multiple times. I don't quite know if this movie is fantastic yet. this movie straight up needs a second watch to really absorb everything and get a final thought on it. But the first half is pretty…
So much weirder than I ever thought I could be.
for better or worse. this is a very different kind of movie. I'm still on the fence about this
Ari can’t miss.
Metacritic
The movie, for its part, is fairly lively. Especially arresting, from a visual standpoint, is an extended sequence in which Beau encounters members of an interactive theater troupe in a forest.
Viewers are sure to be impressed by Aster's prodigious imagination and technical skill, amused by his gallows humour, and amazed by some of the outrageous images he puts on screen. But whether they will be enthralled by the film is another matter.
Its visual imagination is wonderfully unrestrained, compelling in its extremes even when it is so clearly indebted to every movie that Aster hoovered up to get here. Its tone is impressively steadfast in its desire to repel one moment, entrance the next. And its performances are across-the-board astounding in their commitment.
