The moment that fans caught a glimpse of Khobe Clarke on screen, their grief took over. So, what happens to Beau in the books ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Director Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid amps up the comedic absurdity to tell a haunting story about coping with ...

Mommy is a cockblocker. The premise is a classic—it’s the basis for Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint,” for one, which is personal, detailed, stylish, historically informed, culturally insightful, ...

The titular protagonist of “Beau Is Afraid” endures a lot of trauma. As embodied by Joaquin Phoenix in a permanent state of shock and dread, the character inhabits an apartment surrounded by hooligans ...

Beau Maxwell might only be a side character in Off Campus season 1, but he already has the fans in tears. “Saw him and ...

This three-plus-hour tale of Oedipal misery sees Phoenix on uncharacteristically boring form and ultimately collapses into silliness Having given us two classic scary movies with Hereditary and ...

Ari Aster’s delirious third feature clarifies his artistic obsessions even as it expands them into surreal new shapes. A sickly picaresque guilt trip that stretches a single Jewish man’s swollen ...

With a muffled howl and a dull boom, “Beau Is Afraid” gets under way. What are we listening to? Are we in a U-boat, perhaps, with depth charges exploding nearby and the hull beginning to crack?

Amy Beth is a Resource Writer and Horror Features Writer at Collider and an occasional contributor to the British television website The Custard TV. Her underlying goal is to create entertaining and ...