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.

But Beau Is Afraid still strikes me as an audacious misfire ... where he stumbles on a wandering theater troupe. The show they put on for him — Aster makes use of some strikingly beautiful ...

into a forest where a traveling theater troupe puts on elaborate shows springing, seemingly, straight from our protagonist’s subconscious. The narrative flow of “Beau is Afraid” wigs out big ...

Don’t be afraid to give “Beau” a chance though because there ... mom includes a childhood crush (Parker Posey), a traveling theater troupe, a paint-drinking teen girl, a maniacal soldier ...

She's now earning Oscar buzz for 'Beau is Afraid' and wants to do more experimental ... "I'm not missing the theater," LuPone says. "I won't do eight shows a week ever again.

Beau comes upon a theater troupe called The Orphans of the ... Here is where we can start to see that Beau Is Afraid is a kind of super-sadistic version of The Truman Show. A picture in the ...

“Beau Is Afraid,” which A24 releases in theaters ... a magical section in a forest where Beau encounters a traveling theater group and is transported into their stage play; and finally his ...

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 ...

Also, I watched that new Ari Aster movie ‘Beau Is Afraid’ and I got so scared. I literally had to walk out of the theater. I have never had such a visceral reaction to a movie in my life.

That’s not to say “Beau is Afraid” doesn’t work really well at some points — audiences may have the best time they’ve had in a theater all year at certain points — but at other times ...

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 ...