It might be easy to mistake the bleakness as signs of a filmmaker who looks at his characters with ambivalent contempt but even when the world is cruel, the sharpest thing about “Kinds of Kindness” is how Lanthimos finds dignity in each action.

| Apr 13, 2025

As with all his American movies, Kinds of Kindness is both unremittingly cruel and unstintingly self-satisfied.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

The characters are all deluded and continuously pushed around, under external control of various kinds and in love with that control. They want to be enslaved and abused, they long or even beg for it. It is the only source of genuine pleasure for them.

| Jan 13, 2025

Altogether exhilarating and horrifying—a totally Lanthimos experience.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 22, 2024

This is a film solely for Lanthimos fans, but even for them this is like listening to a B-sides collection of your favourite singer, not a studio album.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2024

A twisted anthology that plays into Lanthimos’ peculiar style to study the weaknesses of the human spirit. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2024

Yorgos Lanthimos defiantly returns to his roots in Kinds of Kindness, a lucid film about our worst inner demons. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2024

This parable for pathetic pursuits of respect and affection follows the lyrics of its film-opening Eurythmics song. If you can roll with often graphically violent, morbidly funny misery, this will have you keeping your head up. Everyone else? Movin’ on.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2024

Both audience and cast alike are tortured in “Kinds of Kindness,” a three-part exercise in endurance from cruel genius Yorgos Lanthimos.

| Oct 18, 2024

The beauty of Kinds of Kindness is that this film is clever enough to have an absence of ego, prompting audiences to view it as either viscerally disconnected, or arguing the case for a sharp-eyed observation on the gullibility of humans.

| Oct 18, 2024

It’s a hostile way of telling these stories, but their twisted nature reveals the darker facets of humanity, shedding light on what we’re willing to overlook and embrace for a pittance of love.

| Oct 8, 2024

... "Kinds of Kindness," in its role as a fable, is a warning and not a declaration akin to stories like "The Favourite" (2018) or the implication of the end of "The Lobster" (2015).

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 8, 2024

Everything about Kinds of Kindness is carefully honed to be as alienating as possible. It's grotesque. It's incredibly strange. It's very slow and very long. But more than anything, it just begs not to be "enjoyed" in any conventional sense of the word.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 16, 2024

Potentially interesting ideas simply can't fill the emotional void at the film's core.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 14, 2024

Kinds of Kindness (the title practically drips irony…there’s not much kindness on display here) has been impeccably made but isn’t particularly inviting on either an emotional or intellectual level.

| Sep 14, 2024

The subject matter can certainly be a bit grim, but the movie never feels like it’s trying too hard or is some edgelord poser that just wants to be provocative for the sake of being brash.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 13, 2024

It’s a pitch-black and bone-dry dark comedy that is too amused by its own weirdness to generate any actual humor. But its biggest problem is the utter lack of a human pulse.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 6, 2024

Ultimately, Kinds of Kindness is bizarre, esoteric, and overly self-indulgent, making it a major disappointment.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 4, 2024

It's an uneven experience, difficult to connect with on an emotional level, but intellectually stimulating, especially when you compare the different narrative elements and messages of the three stories. Full review in Spanish.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Kinds of Kindness takes great pleasure in toeing the line between realism and absurdism, and its script excels at examining human’s natural desires through an unfiltered lens.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 2, 2024