Amy Wright, co-founder of Bitty & Beau's Coffee, visited her son Beau on his first day of work at the coffee shop chain.

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?

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, ...

Hey, remember Billy Porter's incredible gown on the Oscars red carpet? My goodness, he looked fantastic. And the article he published in Vogue to explain why he did it? Amazing icing on the delicious ...

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 ...

This article contains significant Beau Is Afraid spoilers. He stands alone in front of a judging audience. One might even say he’s been alone his whole life, if not for the persistent specter of his ...

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For as long as President-elect Joe Biden has served in public office (his 48-year-long political career began in the Senate and, starting January 20th, will culminate in the Oval Office), he has dealt ...