“Kindness,” which displays precious little of its title virtue, is a cornucopia of black humor, dark thrills and assorted murders, couplings and things that make you go eeewww.

| Aug 8, 2024

...a film about the human condition but not about humans.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Kinds of Kindness, like the other works from Lanthimos and Filippou’s partnership, is spikier, intentionally mannered, and far more challenging. But at least when you’re squirming, you know you’re not bored.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 13, 2024

I was riveted always. Yes, it's very long, but it moves.

| Jul 13, 2024

A wonderfully acted absurdist drama that made me look away at times and laugh out loud at others.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 12, 2024

It’s a cinema that is edgy and plays with excesses. Certainly not everybody’s cup of tea but one that can’t be ignored. It is riveting, in fact.

| Jul 10, 2024

The tone is broadly absurdist misanthropic kafkaesque, often cruelly hilarious. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 3, 2024

The three stories in Kinds of Kindness... reflect the parts of our humanity that we try to ignore, destroy, and, in the worst circumstances, distort in order to feel better about ourselves.

| Jul 2, 2024

Without the full-bore stylistic visual onslaught that oiled the wheels of Lanthimos’s last two films, Kinds of Kindness can feel rather a slog.

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

Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos... crushed it at the Oscars when his muse Emma Stone won best actress. But, oof, this nearly three-hour triptych fable trips.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2024

I should warn there’s some rough material here. In fact, the two women sitting behind me at my screening were so repulsed they audibly complained before walking out. I admit I was jealous; I wanted to see the sick movie they thought they were watching.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 28, 2024

[T}he audacity of the project carries the day, and a cast once again bringing their A-game for a director who knows how to work with ensembles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2024

The screenplay relies heavily on the shock value, the performances, and the production design by Anthony Gasparro to make the movie seem weightier than it is. And when that’s not enough, it winks at the audience to let us know that it just doesn’t care.

| Original Score: C | Jun 28, 2024

Lanthimos trips over himself reconnecting with his inner freak in "Kinds of Kindness," a frustrating triptych that works hard to reconfirm his weirdo cred after he experienced a pair of mainstream successes.

| Original Score: C | Jun 27, 2024

It’s a luxe treatment of some puny satiric ideas.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 27, 2024

Stone may get all the attention but with his sandy, anonymous mustache and eyes fixed on the middle distance, Plemons is the movie’s anxious soul.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2024

The experience is like watching a pretentious reboot of Tales From the Darkside.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2024

Clocking in at 165 minutes, the impact of Kinds of Kindness is cumulative and distinctly alienating, despite the various treats offered en route.

| Jun 27, 2024

Kinds of Kindness lives in a place equal in ideas and riches to The Favourite or Poor Things’s ruffled luxuries -- it’s just not as immediately welcoming to the viewer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 27, 2024

On the whole, Kinds of Kindness is a mixed bag of tricks and treats.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2024