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Releasing on Jun 21, 2024
  • 2024
  • R
  • Searchlight Pictures
  • 2 h 44 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Searchlight Pictures
  • 2 h 44 m

Summary Kinds of Kindness is 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 spirit...

Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos

Written By: Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos

  • 2024
  • R
  • Searchlight Pictures
  • 2 h 44 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Searchlight Pictures
  • 2 h 44 m

Kinds of Kindness

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
72
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Summary Kinds of Kindness is 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 spirit...

Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos

Written By: Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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22% Mixed
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0% Negative
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91
May 24, 2024
This ramping-up of darkness from episode to episode is largely what justifies Kinds Of Kindness’ triptych structure. It never feels like these evenly-timed stories would fare better in isolation; they build upon and complicate one another, gelling into something haunting that fits the touted “fable” description.
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80
May 20, 2024
It’s not cynicism but a chuckling curiosity that fuels this sideways parable, which aligns it with Lanthimos’ past work in the most perfect of ways. You can’t say that it’s a movie for everybody. But it takes all kinds.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
80
May 17, 2024
Lanthimos’s unwavering, matter-of-fact style embodies the unquestioning nature of his characters. And while the internal logic of his controlled worlds feels ironclad, it never really is. The filmmaker’s precision is a ruse, a magic trick designed to make us think one thing while quietly building a case for its opposite: the reality that none of this makes any sense.
By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW
75
May 19, 2024
Lanthimos has put together another dark, well-crafted delight, if not a slightly more forgettable one.
By Luke Hicks FULL REVIEW
70
May 19, 2024
If nothing else, Kinds of Kindness features three show-stopping performances from Jesse Plemons, giving Lanthimos a new muse to champion.
By Audrey Fox FULL REVIEW
60
May 20, 2024
Some who found his last two films an eccentric romp might end up feeling like some of the unfortunate folk in this – bruised, battered and stuck – but anyone who shares Lanthimos’s pleasure at swatting his humans like flies will surely extract wry pleasure from it.
By Dave Calhoun FULL REVIEW
40
May 20, 2024
You might care to see this as an allegory about power, sex and control, but it doesn’t feel like it’s saying anything particularly profound.
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Production Company Element Pictures, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, TSG Entertainment
Release Date Jun 21, 2024
Duration 2 h 44 m
Rating R
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Tagline Everybody's looking for something
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sydney Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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