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‘Kinds of Kindness’ Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Keeps You Squirming for Nearly Three Hours in Bizarre, Biting Parody
Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with his 'Dogtooth' screenwriter, putting Jesse Plemons, Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe through an unpredictably dark triptych.
After achieving both box office and awards acclaim with “The Favourite” and “Poor Things” (flamboyant literary adaptations, both written by Tony McNamara), the merciless Surrealist does a hard reset, reteaming with “Dogtooth” scribe Efthimis Filippou on several deadpan parodies of control and consent: of the corporate workplace, of marriage, of religion. Set in a wonky parallel present where dogs are in charge and death is negotiable, this three-part, nearly three-hour anthology film finds Lanthimos taking a victory lap, with a killer cast and the far richer resources of an American indie studio at his disposal. Stone, who starred in the director’s previous two films, takes a while to appear, leaving audiences to figure out Plemons’ first character, a pathetic corporate lackey named Robert who does as his boss Raymond (Dafoe) tells him, even if that means smashing his shiny new Bronco into a stranger’s car.
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