movie review BUGONIA Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (Bloody and violent content, suicide, grisly images, language). In select theaters Oct. 24. That “Bugonia” is only a tense two hours is a kind of kindness. Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ previous collaboration with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, the miserable “Kinds of Kindness” in 2024, was a … Read more
In the new Yorgos Lanthimos film “Kinds of Kindness,” a character played by Emma Stone recounts a dream in which she was the denizen of a bizarre world. “There, dogs were in charge,” she murmurs. “People were animals, animals were people.” But being brought to heel by their canine masters wasn’t as bad as it … Read more
STONE That still happens. LANTHIMOS So that was quite a disappointment because I was very naïve in meeting people and them saying, “Oh my God, ‘Dogtooth’ is amazing, we want to do things with you.” And then I would produce “The Lobster” [2016] and they would go, “Oh, no, no, we’re not talking about something … Read more