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When mothers and dreams are involved, it is hard not to think of Freud. But in Ari Aster’s latest, very little is left to the imagination.

Child’s play: Ari Aster’s latest living nightmare, Beau Is Afraid, stars Joaquin Phoenix as a stunted, paranoid mama’s boy, caught up in a roller coaster of horrors—and is not quite as interesting as one would hope

Truth in advertising: Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is afraid, of nearly everything, including his domineering mother (Patti Lupone), whom he plans to visit very soon; sex (he was told his father, who had a heart murmur, died immediately upon his conception); accidentally drinking mouthwash; and much of the world outside his apartment, in the large fictionalized city of Corrina where he lives. To be fair, in Ari Aster's audaciously perverse jet-black comedy, Beau is shown over and over again to be fully justified with his many apprehensions.

A failed man's journey to return home turns into a sprawling, surreal nightmare in Ari Aster's new film. This is our review of "Beau Is Afraid."

Director Ari Aster takes us on a surreal cinematic journey in "Beau is Afraid." These are the film's most unexpected twists and turns.