Beau is Afraid

Translated from swedish: Unparalleled portrayal of the world's most anxious man
- Oscar Westerholm

Swedish: sydsvenskan.se »

Translated from swedish: Aster doesn't give a damn about your feelings; "Beau is Afraid" is going to mess you up, no matter how you look at it. It's unrestrained, uncomfortable, and wonderfully disturbing. In other words: Ari Aster has done it again!
- André Lamartine

Swedish: gamereactor.se »

Translated from swedish: Ari Aster's Freudian horror film "Beau is Afraid" with Joaquin Phoenix is thoroughly intelligent.
- Johan Hilton

Swedish: gp.se »

Translated from swedish: It's oedipal and surrealistic, but Aster takes that concept and twists it several times over – through suggestive, inventive, and weighty visual work that fully exploits the medium. Impressive. And exhausting.
- Fredrik Sahlin

Swedish: svt.se »

Translated from swedish: Sometimes "Beau is Afraid" becomes ridiculously heavy-handed, and three hours of psychoanalytical dreck isn't everyone's cup of tea. But apparently it is mine?
- Joakim Silverdal

Swedish: sverigesradio.se »

Translated from swedish: The film is a hypnotic experience where Beau's fears and your own blend together, and as a bonus, thanks to an excellent soundtrack, you get some of your favorite songs ruined forever.
- Kasia Syty

Swedish: unt.se »

Translated from swedish: If we're going to criticize the film, it's that the director chose to pack everything and the kitchen sink into this imaginative blockbuster. It ultimately becomes too overwhelming. But it's certainly not conventionally told or boring, at least. And the journey into Beau's mind is so uniquely captivating that it excuses certain shortcomings toward the end.
- Peo Sandholm

Swedish: bio.nu »

Translated from swedish: This is definitely a film that's going to divide people, but that's what movies should do. The fact that I sat through a 3-hour ambitious film that left me completely drained by the end shows that Ari Aster succeeded in exactly what he wanted to accomplish with the movie - "a 4-hour-long nightmare comedy" as he described it.
- Linus Andersen

Swedish: cinetaste.se »

Translated from swedish: Everything is so batshit crazy that at first I can't really decide whether it's brilliant or just pretentious, trend-sensitive and overworked "elevated horror" for desperate hipsters. But it's as mind-bendingly confusing as it is captivatingly entertaining, and I end up being fascinatedly convinced that this is refreshingly bonkers and macabrely fun.
- Thomas Nilsson

Swedish: hemmabiotidningen.se »

Translated from swedish: Beau's existence consists of dodging dangers. This leads to a steady stream of chaotic moments, macabre and funny in a way that can be compared to more intense and incoherent Coen Brothers humor. Or Tarantino on drugs. Or simply a completely mind-blowing unique Ari Aster experience!
- Annika Andersson

Swedish: moviezine.se »

Translated from swedish: It's most entertaining when Aster throws himself headfirst into chaos, phobias, and mental phantoms. A breathless absurdism that completely demolishes the understated competence that threatens whenever Beau slows down. A film this big and sprawling absolutely screams to be either hated or loved. That's why it feels so disappointing when it gets lost somewhere in between.
- Sebastian Lindvall

Swedish: dn.se »

Translated from swedish: The ambition is refreshing. But despite all the creative talent Aster had at his disposal, it amounts to nothing more than three exhausting hours of nonsense.
- Calle Wahlström

Swedish: ng.se »

Translated from swedish: On a road trip through a prolonged nightmare
- Anna Hellsten

Swedish: svd.se »

Translated from swedish: There's violence, horror, and plenty of clever typical Ari Aster touches to appreciate. But everything is way too much of an endurance test, sometimes downright boring and a bit pretentious. Ari Aster can be a brilliant director, but not when he's only surrounded by yes-men.
- Jan-Olov Andersson

Swedish: aftonbladet.se »

Translated from swedish: Visually it's gorgeous, but good lord is it tedious.
- Eric Diedrichs

Swedish: filmtopp.se »

Translated from swedish: It's impossible to completely dismiss "Beau is Afraid" as it repeatedly delivers moments of pure, razor-sharp brilliance when it comes to blending horror with comedy. But those gems are scattered throughout a concoction that makes anyone with functioning taste buds nauseous after the first bite.
- Elis Holmström

Swedish: kulturbloggen.com »