Ted Rogers’s review published on Letterboxd:
No hot takes here, but this is not a 3-hour panic attack. Panic attacks come on fast and without warning—complete debilitating disruptions with what feels like immediate threat to life. This film takes its time, it ruminates, it catastrophizes, and it constructs—however illogical—logical systems and consequences, all of which are explored and exploded to the molecular level. This is living with and through anxiety.
Anxiety as a term is at risk of losing its meaning, and certainly has lost its severity. But, like all of Aster's films, BEAU IS AFRAID offers a taboo catharsis, and this one, in all of its gruesume surreality, feels genuinely affirming that "it really is that bad, Ted."
