Beau Is Afraid

Beau Is Afraid (2023) — watch online on iFILM. Ari Aster's third feature, produced by A24, stars Joaquin Phoenix as Beau Wassermann: a man so consumed by anxiety that leaving his apartment feels like preparing for war. Runtime: 179 minutes.

Beau's street is a war zone — strangers in his hallway, missing packages, broken locks. When his mother dies without warning, he has to make the trip home for the funeral. That trip becomes an odyssey that bends through suburban trap houses, forest theater troupes, and courtrooms suspended in mid-air. Patti LuPone plays the mother — less a person than a presence that dogs Beau across every chapter. Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane, and Bill Hader each appear in set pieces that feel lifted from entirely different films.

Aster shot this on a $35 million budget; the box office was modest, but the conversation around the film has not stopped. His most personal work — and his most polarizing. Stream Beau Is Afraid (2023) full movie online on iFILM.