Warning! This article contains Spoilers for Beau Is Afraid.Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid repeats the same weird qualities found in Everything Everywhere All At Once but goes even beyond the eccentricities of the Best Picture winner. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Beau, a middle-aged man whose anxieties are hypertrophied to such an extent that the world outside the safety of his apartment is represented as a ghoulish, violent hellscape filled with serial killers, criminals, and the mentally unstable. After he learns that his disapproving mother, a titanic figure in his life, has died under mysterious circumstances he sets off to attend her funeral, thus beginning a surreal and chaotic journey of self-discovery.

With a three-hour run time, Beau is Afraid is an ambitious film that covers a lot of ground, blending genres and styles, just like Everything Everywhere All At Once, as Beau navigates his changing environments. Beau is...