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- 'Kinds of Kindness' delivers shock and awe
- When: 'Kinds of Kindness' is in select theaters June 21 and “kind of everywhere” June 28.
- What to know: The film is a “triptych fable” that tells three distinct stories about characters seeking control.
- Director Yorgos Lanthimos is known for his bizarre movies like Poor Things and The Favourite.
- The cast is stacked: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn and Mamoudou Athie embody three different roles across the nearly three-hour film.
- “Kinds of Kindness opens with Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),' and its verse, to me, basically previews the plot of the movie without the viewer even knowing it,” entertainment editor Alexis Shaw told me. She’s right.
- Why I’ll be watching: You better believe I’ve already seen it, but I’ll be headed back to the theater to decode any plot points I missed. To quote Alexis, it’s “a puzzle to be figured out.”
- — Kelsey Weekman
- June 19, 2024
Jun 26, 2024 · “Kinds of Kindness” overflows with ideas, giving the project the feel of three films that Lanthimos and Filippou couldn’t quite flesh out to feature-length. So, seemingly, they decided to cram them together into a nearly three-hour anthology.
May 18, 2024 · Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Margaret Qualley star in Kinds of Kindness, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Its comic sketches are dark – and disturbing.
May 17, 2024 · Kinds of Kindness First Reviews: Unpredictable, Unapologetic, and Definitely Not for Everyone. Critics say Yorgos Lanthimos's latest is reminiscent of the raw boldness of his earlier work...
Jun 20, 2024 · ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Everybody’s Looking for Something. Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a twisted fable triptych about dominating and being dominated. Listen to this article · 5:52 min Learn...
Jun 21, 2024 · Fresh off of Poor Things, director Lanthimos' three-part dark comedy about domination and free will feels like a lazy and self-admiring riff — punctuated by the occasional crude shock.
May 21, 2024 · This review is based on a screening at the Cannes Film Festival. After grandiose detours like Poor Things and The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his bleak, acerbic best with Kinds of...
May 17, 2024 · ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Keeps You Squirming for Nearly Three Hours in Biting Power Parody. The mordant Greek auteur reunites with his 'Dogtooth' screenwriter,...
