Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) may be afraid, but writer-director Ari Aster certainly isn’t. Rather than slotting in as a “horror” film, “Beau Is Afraid” can be categorized a little less neatly as a surreal three-hour Homeric odyssey about Jewish guilt, Oedipal angst and somebody named “Birthday Boy Stab Man.”
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