Ari Aster's third feature is a maximalist anxiety film that swerves through suburban paranoia, communal theater, animated parable, and Greek tragedy. Joaquin Phoenix gives one of his most physically vulnerable performances inside a film designed to feel like the lining of a single, exquisite, terrible thought.
Ari Aster's three-hour anxiety odyssey leaves no genre intact — picaresque, family drama, mythopoesis — and dares the audience to keep up.
