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Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos Offers Three Kinds, All Weirdly Undercooked

Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos Offers Three Kinds, All Weirdly Undercooked

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 24, 2024Yorgos Lanthimos, Provocative critical hits, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, Anthology features, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Writer Efthimis Filippou, Mamoudou Athie, Hong ChauComment

Poor Things: Darkly Comic, Disturbing Satire Like Nothing Else You've Seen This Year

Poor Things: Darkly Comic, Disturbing Satire Like Nothing Else You've Seen This Year

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 14, 2023Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos, Darkly comic existential satire, Horrific experiments, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, Steampunk Victorian EnglandComment

Family Romance LLC: Herzog's fiction-documentary hybrid explores a world of paid surrogates for all aspects of Japanese life

Family Romance LLC: Herzog's fiction-documentary hybrid explores a world of paid surrogates for all aspects of Japanese life

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 4, 2020Werner Herzog, amily Romance LLC, Yuichi Ishii, Surrogates hired to play friends and family, Japanese culture, Fiction/documentary hybrids, Yorgos Lanthimos, Alps, Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience, Sasha Grey, MUBI streaming serviceComment

PODCAST! Ep. 9: Deep dives and hot takes on the Oscar noms, and a few words from Toronto's Oscar nominated Domee Shi

By Jim Slotek, Kim Hughes, Karen Gordon, Liam Lacey and Bonnie Laufer

Award-season favourite The Favourite: A brilliant blend of Restoration comedy and arch political satire

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 6, 2018The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Deborah Davies, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weiss, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Queen Anne, Lady Sarah Churchill, Abigail Masham, The War of Spanish Succession, Robert Harley, Jonathan Swift, Robbie Ryan, Sandy PowellComment

Review/Q&A: Killing of a Sacred Deer like watching meat run through a grinder

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 3, 2017Yorgos Lanthimos, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Psychological thriller, The Lobster