'Kinds of Kindness' marks Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos's third collaboration, but it's their least satisfying. Read Entertainment Weekly's review.
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With their abrupt violence, grotesque body horror, and mordant sense of humor, all three of the stories feel more aligned with Lanthimos’ earlier style, The audacity that has so defined Lanthimos and Stone’s work together remains, but here, it takes on a nastiness that becomes tedious the longer the film stretches on .
While the themes and the shadowy R.M.F. character create a tenuous connection between the three stories, there doesn’t seem to be any necessity for the triptych structure. These each could play as individual short films and little would be lost in divorcing them from their cinematic cousins. They are isolated narratives, exhibiting a cool separation between each other that, while seemingly purposeful, is also wearying.
In the “Flying” segment, Plemons is once again at the center of a narrative, this time as a man convinced his wife is an imposter. Plemons sells domestic delusion with aplomb, never tipping his hand as to whether his fears are real or merely imagined.
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