![]() ![]() Less a horror than a surreal existential dread bonanza, Beau is Afraid is also quite funny throughout. You'll spend much of Beau is Afraid wondering how much of the movie you're watching is really happening, and how much is a hallucination, eventually seeing things devolve into what's almost a David Lynch-esque abstraction of real life and pure nightmares. ![]() Joaquin Phoenix stars as the titular Beau, in a movie that tells its audience immediately that they're watching a heightened world where everything for its sad-sack protagonist is at its horrifying and anxiety-inducing most. And while it absolutely will not be for everyone, it was, in fact, for me. And these are the movies we think will be able to do it.Īre you ready to be disturbed? Are you ready to be shaken to your core? Are you ready to leave a movie theater thinking "what the hell did I just watch?" Ari Aster ( Hereditary, Midsommar) is without question one of the most brilliant writers/directors in modern horror, and his new A24 behemoth of a film Beau is Afraid-coming in at 3 hours and 15 minutes-is poised to be one of the most polarizing movies of the year. This year will keep us entertained, happy, and excited. If you were questioning how movies would recover from the lows of 2020. And if you love good directors, well, this will be a year for you: Martin Scorsese's The Killers of the Flower Moon will land on Apple TV+ (with Jesse Plemons, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Robert De Niro in tow), David Fincher's The Killer will hit Netflix, and both Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer will hit theaters-on the same day in July. Liked Top Gun: Maverick? Well, Tom Cruise may be going even bigger with Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh film in his long-running stunt-heavy spy franchise. We've got horror coming in droves, with camp ( M3GAN), franchises ( Scream 6), and possible works of genius (Ari Aster's Beau is Afraid) all arriving in the first half of the year alone. The Batmanand Black Panther: Wakanda Foreverproved that superhero movies can be artful, Sam Raimi took his shot with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnessto prove that an old horror master can still make things happen with a big budget, and Steven Spielberg showed us how one of the greatest directors of all time (Steven Spielberg) came to be in The Fabelmans.Ģ023 is hoping to keep that momentum going. Tár and The Banshees of Inisherin gave us some incredible performances from Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell that left us thinking for a long time. The Whale ushered in a masterful, acclaimed, comeback performance from Brendan Fraser. Movies like Top Gun: Maverickand Avatar: The Way of Waterdominated the box office on the big screen, in such a significant, dramatic way, that drama like 2020's " Tenet has been delayed over and over again" feels like a distant memory.īut 2022 didn't just see success at the movies by way of the box office we also saw movies that managed to remind us why we love this stuff in the first place. After 2022, it's hard to remember how much danger it felt like ~the movies~ were in, back in, say, 2020 and the early part of 2021. ![]()
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