Two Ways to Spend Three Hours
Beau Is Afraid and The Plains
Watching
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
I want to just call this movie juvenile and be done with it but if I did so I’d feel the need to point to something more concrete than just vibes to back that claim up.1 When we meet the titular Beau (Joaquin Phoenix), a pitiful husk of a man who lives by himself in a shabby one-bedroom, he seems to be making a sincere effort…