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Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Kermode compared Beau is Afraid to " Todd Solondz-style urban sickness", the "body horror of David Cronenberg's Shivers" (1975), " Voltaire goes to hell via Darren Aronofsky's Mother! A whirlwind of tentacled monsters, interdimensional portals and talking chairs make up this stunning supernatural fantasy by the director of Your Name, but its more grounded moments are just as beautiful. You can see from the image above that the film is set to be a generations spanning epic and with a 3-hour runtime (details below), it’s clearly got a lot to make it through.
We said: “For the young Sam Fabelman, movie-making is an escape and more than that, an escapade, an adventure, a three-ring-circus. Midsommar only had one special feature covering the cast and characters in the film, but hopefully there will be more packed into Beau Is Afraid. In March 2023, A24 became the first independent studio to sweep Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting categories in a single year at the 95th Academy Awards. Fellow filmmaker James Ponsoldt (director of A24's The End of the Tour and The Spectacular Now) also applauded the company, saying: "A24 is remarkable at championing specific cinematic voices because they genuinely adore their films — and that enthusiasm is reflected in the creativity and laser-like precision of their marketing and releases.
And I consider Blue Velvet to be one of the greatest films of all time and people walked out of that too. I got to fit in two more movies before 2023 came to a close, but will be catching up on more I missed to add to this list later.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has dated its upcoming Blu-ray release of Will Gluck's Anyone But You (2023), starring Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell, Dermot Mulroney, Michelle Hurd, and Bryan Brown. A24 would ultimately become the most awarded studio that year with nine awards in total, as well as sweeping seven of the major awards. Prior to A24, all had worked extensively in film and production before leaving their positions to co-found the company, originally A24 Films, which specialized in film distribution. Martin Scorsese Says "Style and Pacing" on 'Killers of the Flower Moon' Was Inspired by Ari Aster's Films". This was not a first-look deal, meaning that A24 can continue to produce and acquire films to release outside of the deal, and that it would not affect previous deals that A24 had signed with other companies.
Scorsese and the Cohens go backwards a lot in their films and they would not be anywhere near as good as they are if they didn't. So we were all struggling, even to the point where we were saying, ‘Well, we can pick up a minute doing that.