In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point : Pop Culture Happy Hour
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In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point : Pop Culture Happy Hour

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In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point : Pop Culture Happy Hour Kinds of Kindness is a weird, dark, and bleak film. It's directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and it re-teams him with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, along with Jesse Plemons. Each actor plays different characters in three different stories — which all involve someone going to extreme measures to regain something they've lost. Review Pop Culture Happy Hour In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point Listen · 23:25 23:25 Enlarge this image toggle caption Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures Kinds of Kindness is a weird, dark, and bleak film.

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Kinds of Kindness review: Yorgos Lanthimos returns to deadpan cruelty and despair with Emma Stone
5 months, 1 week ago

Kinds of Kindness review: Yorgos Lanthimos returns to deadpan cruelty and despair with Emma Stone

ABC  

There are two fantastic needle drops that bookend Yorgos Lanthimos's new anthology film Kinds of Kindness. Following two consecutive awards darlings – the Oscar-winning Poor Things and The Favourite – Kinds of Kindness marks Lanthimos's return to the deadpan excursions into cruelty and despair for which he first made his name. Emma Stone's 'exquisite strangeness' on screen Photo shows Emma, …

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ made by a filmmaker desperate to seem cool again, tests cultdom and patience
6 months ago

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ made by a filmmaker desperate to seem cool again, tests cultdom and patience

LA Times  

What disturbs shockmaster Yorgos Lanthimos? The provocateur’s last two films, “Poor Things” and “The Favourite,” surprised even longtime Lanthimos fans by racking up 21 Academy Award nominations and two actress wins for leads Emma Stone and Olivia Colman, cementing him as one of the greatest women’s directors since George Cukor. “Dogtooth” and “The Lobster,” Lanthimos’s breakthrough marvels, covered the same …

Movie Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,' Emma Stone’s latest foray into fearlessness with Yorgos Lanthimos
6 months ago

Movie Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,' Emma Stone’s latest foray into fearlessness with Yorgos Lanthimos

Hindustan Times  

If our world should one day cease to exist, and some improved civilization from another galaxy stumbles upon our popular culture and seeks to understand all the fuss about Emma Stone — well, we now have the film clip they should see. Movie Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,' Emma Stone’s latest foray into fearlessness with Yorgos Lanthimos She’s not even speaking, …

Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness'
6 months, 1 week ago

Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness'

NPR  

Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness' toggle caption Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures With his grimly funny movies about people doing cruel things to each other under surreally absurd circumstances, the Greek-born filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has long been what you might call an acquired taste. When Robert finally refuses to follow one of Raymond’s orders — …

‘Kinds of Kindness’ star Jesse Plemons opens up about losing weight and that ‘Civil War’ cameo
6 months, 1 week ago

‘Kinds of Kindness’ star Jesse Plemons opens up about losing weight and that ‘Civil War’ cameo

LA Times  

Actor Jesse Plemons, winner of the best actor prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his new film “Kinds of Kindness,” photographed at El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. But he’d have to be at least a little worn out going in from his meteoric rise: Since I last interviewed him for The Times in 2019 — for a piece …

‘Kinds of Kindness’ director Yorgos Lanthimos announces fourth film with Emma Stone, ‘Bugonia’
7 months ago

‘Kinds of Kindness’ director Yorgos Lanthimos announces fourth film with Emma Stone, ‘Bugonia’

The Hindu  

Following the Cannes premiere of his latest film, director Yorgos Lanthimos is set to helm Bugonia, a new project starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Bugonia marks a departure from Lanthimos’ recent collaborations with Searchlight Pictures, which backed his acclaimed films The Favourite and Poor Things, as well as the upcoming Kinds of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos, a six-time Academy Award …

Kinds of Kindness review: 'Almost unbearable cruelty' in Emma Stone's wacky black comedy
7 months ago

Kinds of Kindness review: 'Almost unbearable cruelty' in Emma Stone's wacky black comedy

BBC  

Kinds of Kindness review: 'Almost unbearable cruelty' in Emma Stone's wacky black comedy Courtesy Cannes Film Festival Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe star in Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos's latest, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Instead, Kinds of Kindness comprises three short films, all set in the present-day US, and all featuring the same …

‘Kinds of Kindness’ trailer: Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos reunite for yet another weird adventure
8 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Kinds of Kindness’ trailer: Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos reunite for yet another weird adventure

The Hindu  

After their triumph with Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos and Academy Award-winning actress Emma Stone are set to weird us out once more with their latest venture, Kinds of Kindness. Scripted by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, known for their collaborations on previous hits like The Lobster and Dogtooth, Kinds of Kindness describes itself as a “triptych fable”. According to its …

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone reveal new film, ‘Kinds of Kindness’, after ‘Poor Things’ Oscar success
9 months, 1 week ago

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone reveal new film, ‘Kinds of Kindness’, after ‘Poor Things’ Oscar success

The Hindu  

Fresh off the heels of their triumph at the 96th Academy Awards with Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone are set to bewilder audiences once again with their next collaboration, Kinds of Kindness, slated for a summer 2024 release. Starring Academy Award winner Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie …

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