Kinds of Kindness

"Definitely a unique, surreal experience akin to American Horror story, if one season was three episodes. I enjoyed the ethical chaos, the acting and the connections that were formed between part one, two and three of the story. While it's hard to pull distinct flaws from something that is supposed to be absurd and humorous and rule-bending, I will say, I did not enjoy Kinds of Kindness as much as I enjoyed Poor Things. Take from that what you may, just don't let Willem Dafoe find out."

"This should have been called Yorgos Lanthimos' Twilight Zone. The acting and directing are stellar as expected when you basically have the same team from Poor Things plus others. The cinematography was also fantastic, I loved the long, wide lens takes with awkwardly long silences sprinkled throughout the movie. My biggest gripe is the pacing and story, I found it to be very slow. Also, it relied way to much on the "shock value". It's overall a solid, experiment from Lanthimos but feels like a step backwards coming after Poor Things. "

"Wild "

"I dont know what to think of this movie. All 3 stories are amazingly out there, felt like watching 3 episodes of black mirror. "

"wow. what a wild ride. "

"Easily the most fun I've had in a theatre since Poor Things. "

"This is a very strange film. It’s so mysterious and doesn’t really tell you any for most of the film where I couldn’t finish it. Usually I can stick it out but this felt really dragged out where it was hard to pay attention. "

"Quite absurd and surreal, but very enjoyable. Would describe as an anthology with same actors, but different characters. **TRIGGER WARNING: - Suicide - Murder - Sexual assault "

" I planned to watch KINDS OF KINDNESS in three parts over the long three day weekend. I ended up watching it in one hot afternoon. Maybe it was a fever dream. Returning to it was my prize for doing all the work that had piled up over the long summer. Like: Washing laundry Writing backlogged reviews and Eating all the fruit that was going bad in the fridge KINDS OF KINDNESS (2024) Oscar Bait You’re probably going to get at least one Oscar nomination out of this movie, from this cast. It’s available early in the season so we might as well be thankful for that. It’s a triptych and I recommend watching it in three sections. Each section has a title, a beginning, middle, and end. So, it’s very easy to do. Part One: "The Death of R.M.F." He upon being told how to behave decides he no longer wants to follow every rule set upon him. Despite being told to do this one thing it becomes the only thing he cannot do, and he says “no.” The ramifications to him are unclear in the beginning but it doesn’t take long for him to begin to feel untethered. And he doesn’t like it. Freedom has a higher cost than he’d like to pay. In fact, it costs more than he has available to him, which is nothing. I’m not sure if this is an expression of diet fatigue for men. Or men fatigue for women. Like a parasitic twin, both of us are hungry. Only one of us is eating. Woe is me when Dafoe starts to talk of snatched waists and bulimic personalities who have sex before breakfast. Too early in the day for dawn. Private notes: If he doesn’t play Matt Damon’s long-lost brother soon I will explode into pieces of nothingness. Part Two: "R.M.F. Is Flying" Liz is missing and Daniel hasn’t been the same since she’s been gone. The exact date that she went missing is hard to pinpoint. It could’ve been last week or last year. Because the last day they saw her is not the same as the date she disappeared. It’s not the same as the day they lost her. Full Review: Under the Radar Books"