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There was nothing dysfunctional about the debut of Ari Aster’s mind-bending Beau Is Afraid at the specialty box office. The movie scored a location average of $80,099 from four theaters in New ...

Beau is Afraid (2023) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Ari Aster and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Nathan Lane, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones ...

Ahead of its wide release next weekend, A24’s “ Beau Is Afraid ” has been released in four theaters in Los Angeles and New York this weekend and earned the best per-theater average of 2023.

BEAU IS AFRAID is masterfully-made, creative and often visually beautiful (particularly in a haunting fantasy sequence in the middle) and brilliantly acted, but it is a crazy, sometimes unsettling ...

It’s also the second-best per-screen-average for A24 after the Adam Sandler crime film “Uncut Gems.” Now, “Beau Is Afraid” needs to sustain momentum as it expands nationwide next weekend.

“Beau Is Afraid,” an A24 release is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for strong violent content, sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language. Running time: 179 minutes.

Writer-director Ari Aster attends the Los Angeles premiere of A24's "Beau Is Afraid" at the Directors Guild of America on April 10, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

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.

No, Beau Is Afraid will not be on HBO Max since it is not a Warner Bros. movie. Last year, the company dropped its movies on the streamer the same day they premiered in theaters.

If there’s anything Beau should be afraid of, it might be the three-hour runtime. Sitting through “Beau is Afraid” is exhausting, but it makes sense why it had to be so lengthy as to fit in ...

But “Beau Is Afraid’ is eminently unique to Aster, who fills his frames with sly jokes. Beau’s recent phone calls, for just one example, are only his mother, his therapist and Moviefone.