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Kinds of Kindness

2024

Comedy / Drama / Horror

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 281 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 61075 61.1K

husband wife relationship dark comedy anthology sexual violence mental illness questioning

Plot summary

A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

Director

Yorgos Lanthimos Photo
Yorgos Lanthimos

Top cast

Mamoudou Athie Photo
Mamoudou Athie as Will / Neil / Morgue Nurse
Emma Stone Photo
Emma Stone as Rita / Liz / Emily
Margaret Qualley Photo
Margaret Qualley as Vivian / Martha / Rebecca / Ruth
Willem Dafoe Photo
Willem Dafoe as Raymond / George / Omi
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Movie_Rating_n_Ranking 7 / 10

Nothing like an old WTF movie from Lanthimos.

The real Yorgos Lanthimos seen in films like The Lobster returns to leave us completely disheveled in a film disguised as a miniseries composed of three parts, which contain different stories, but are equally raw, dark, bizarre and confusing. Maybe too much. If you don't share the same sense of black humor as the Greek filmmaker, you'll have a hard time getting into these stories. Even more so now that Lanthimos fills us with sequences that may well be metaphors, crude satires and exhibitions of the weakest human being in the face of another full of power.The script is risky, it's arrogant, petulant, narcissistic and dangerously funny. Now, if we abandon the truth of objectivity to go to the path of subjectivity, I didn't like the plots at all. It looks at you with unnecessary superiority over its shoulder, leaving you confused and disgusted.It's undeniable that the film is well made, because the technical aspects are spectacular. It has wonderful photography despite how simplistic the film turns out to be. The soundtrack is disturbing and makes us undo the button on our shirt collar. The directing and editing are also wonderful. But the story itself leaves me with a taste in my mouth that is more bitter than sweet.I will pay close attention to the rest of the reviews, because I'm very curious about the reaction of others to this strange work.
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Reviewed by joris_w 6 / 10

Works because of Jesse Plemons, until it overindulges into nonsense

Kinds of Kindness is divided into three stories with the same cast. A high level of absurdity and unpredictability mixed with some mystery make for a funny quirky thriller at first. Jesse Plemons excels at making this quirkiness work to the benefit of the movie.

Then the first chapter ends and turns into the second, shuffling things around, which already begins to demand some tolerance and patience from the viewer. Random things are inserted for shock value that amuse at first but then become to seem pretentious.

By the third chapter, the movie has overindulged in random ideas that are appear intended to impress without clear direction. At this point it's just absurdity for the sake of absurdity, which comes across as an underestimation of the critical viewer.

All in all, I enjoyed the first part, and think Plemons did great, but ultimately believe we could've picked a better movie, and intend to stay away from films by this particular director in the future.

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