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Beau is Afraid

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Billed often as horror or dark comedy, Beau is Afraid is a three-hour movie about a man who needs to visit his mother. It introduces us to Beau (Joaquin Phoenix), a middle aged man with abundant anxieties that seem fairly well placed, considering his street appears to be populated with vagrants who want to jump him and …

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The Whale

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Let’s start with facts: The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky and adapted from the stage play by Samuel D. Hunter, is a dramatic bottle-episode of a movie starring Brendan Frasier as Charlie, a reclusive man teaching literature online who, finding himself facing mortality, wishes to reconnect with his estranged daughter. The only other people to …

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