'Beau Is Afraid': A Three-Hour Anxiety Attack That Will Leave You Speechless.

"Beau is Afraid" is a three-hour film directed by Ari Aster, known for his cult-horror slow burns "Hereditary" and "Midsommar". Starring Joaquin Phoenix, the film is an epic of guilt and shame, exorcizing familial demons on a bigger budget than A24 has ever shelled out. While sold as a dark comedy, the film is more of a borderline-Oedipal lunacy, with a perverse allure of audacious big swings too scarce in our era of low risks at high budgets.