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Playback: Yorgos Lanthimos, Disorder and Discomfort, from KINETTA to BUGONIA
Yorgos Lanthimos delights in discomfort. Lanthimos built a career on ritualized absurdity and moral distortion, spinning stories where love, control, and social order are pushed to the brink of the surreal. From Dogtooth's domestic isolation to Poor Things's sexually-charged, Frankensteinian...
BUGONIA Review: Timely, Wickedly Entertaining Abduction Thriller
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorogos Lantimos' remake of 'Save the Green Planet!'
Friday One Sheet: BUGONIA
Have we featured key art from pretty much every Yorgos Lanthimos film since this column's inception? Probably. The work of designer Vasilis Marmatakis is always striking, and his inclination towards verticality always captures my attention. For Bugonia, a loose remake...
Busan 2025 Review: BUGONIA, Vivid and Deranged Remake of Korean Cult Classic Seeks the Truth
Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Save the Green Planet' remake.
BUGONIA Trailer: Lanthimos, Stone And Plemons Together Again to Remake a Korean Cult Classic
Yorgos Lanthimos has teamed up with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for a remake of the Korean cult film, Save the Green Planet.
4K Review: Criterion Harnesses THE POWER OF THE DOG For a Stunning Release
Jane Campion's revisionist Netflix Western stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Jesse Plemons.
Review: THE POWER OF THE DOG Simmers with Anger, Love, and Jealousy on the Waning Frontier
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons star in Jane Campion's Montana-set Western.
Review: JUNGLE CRUISE, Derivative Story Elevated By Charismatic Leads
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt star in an action adventure, based on a Disney theme-park attraction, and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.
Review: JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH Crusades Into Activist History
Daniel Kaluuya, LaKieth Stanfield and Jesse Plemons star in Black Panther chairman biopic.
Review: I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS By Charlie Kaufman
In director Spike Jonze’s Adaptation, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is in the film as himself played by Nicolas Cage. That character puts his own spin on the book in that film when he is tasked with writing a screenplay for it....
Los Cabos 2019 Interview: THE IRISHMAN Producer Gastón Pavlovich On Martin Scorsese's Great Goodbye To Mobster Cinema
In 2016, the legendary Italian-American filmmaker Martin Scorsese managed to release Silence, a highly personal project that took him more than 25 years to complete. It's no secret that the key producer in the culmination of this effort was Gastón...
Review: THE IRISHMAN Feels the Heavy Weight of Mortality
Martin Scorsese's epic gangster saga, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Ray Romano, Harvey Keitel, and Anna Paquin, falls short of his masterpieces 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino,' but is still well-made and magnificently acted.
Review: In THE DISCOVERY, People Are (Literally) Dying to Experience the Afterlife
… Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than...
