Tag - Jake Gyllenhaal

Freeze Frame: “Beau is Afraid” (R), “Chevalier” (PG-13), “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant” (R), “Ghosted” (PG-13), “To Catch a Killer” (R)

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The off-putting phantasmagorical horror comedy "Beau is Afraid" is a psychologist's nightmare. Joaquin Phoenix is excellent as a middle-aged man with mommy issues who goes on a terror-filled journey to his mother's funeral. Ari Aster's 3-hour epic is alternately brilliant and frustrating. “Beau is Afraid” is...

Freeze Frame: “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” (PG-13), “The Guilty” (R)

It’s certainly no surprise when a Marvel movie is a box office hit. But the 2018 action flick “Venom,” featuring a villain from the Spider-Man universe, was universally panned. It still drew big crowds anxious to see the deadly alien parasite’s origin story. But “Venom” was an uneasy and absurd...