Review of Beau Is Afraid (2023) by Mick Lasalle for San Francisco Chronicle — 20 Apr 2023
A structure might have inhibited Aster’s impulse for meaningless excess. Instead, we get a movie that’s all talent and no discipline, which, in practice, is even worse than a movie that’s all discipline and no talent.
At least the latter tries to please the audience; the former just pleases the filmmaker.
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This review of Beau Is Afraid (2023) was written by Mick Lasalle and published by San Francisco Chronicle on 20 April 2023.
Beau Is Afraid has generally received positive reviews.
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