{"id":2080076,"date":"2025-10-09T18:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2080076"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:49:04","slug":"emma-stone-stars-in-another-flippin-weird-yorgos-lanthimos-movie-about-conspiracy-theorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/emma-stone-stars-in-another-flippin-weird-yorgos-lanthimos-movie-about-conspiracy-theorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone stars in another flippin&#8217; weird Yorgos Lanthimos movie about conspiracy theorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F10%2Fnewspress-collage-h1e6452o6-1760033209322.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261760018888\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow 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Rated R (Bloody and violent content, suicide, grisly images, language). In select theaters Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That \u201cBugonia\u201d is only a tense two hours is a kind of kindness.<\/p>\n<p>Director Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 previous collaboration with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons,<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/20\/entertainment\/kinds-of-kindness-review-emma-stone-stars-in-torturous-oscar-bait\/\"> the miserable \u201cKinds of Kindness\u201d<\/a> in 2024, was a punishing 2:45.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes felt like January days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not true of the trio\u2019s new movie, a zany, comic, icky, smelly thriller about the deadly cocktail of loneliness and web browsing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBugonia\u201d buzzes by, if sometimes nauseastingly, and is a huge improvement from Lanthimos\u2019 episodic drivel last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I\u2019m exhausted by the \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/12\/11\/entertainment\/poor-things-review-emma-stone-is-a-sex-crazed-science-experiment\/\">Poor Things<\/a>\u201d auteur\u2019s schtick of overly peculiar tales, fishbowl lenses, fast struts down chic hallways, aloof characters and loud, abrupt music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enough already.<\/p>\n<p>And, despite the accolades Lanthimos has won her, it would be nice to see the sensational Stone escape from the clutches of his repetitive vision.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You might have forgotten at this point, but the two-time Oscar winner is quite skilled at playing regular people. God forbid.<\/p>\n<p>Like Stone\u2019s CEO role here, Michelle, the actress is very much trapped in her \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/11\/20\/the-favourite-features-the-royal-command-performance-of-2018\/\">Favourite<\/a>\u201d director\u2019s basement.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is a magazine-ready biomedical executive, who\u2019s captured by a couple of small-town creeps, Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis), because paranoid Teddy is convinced she is an alien that\u2019s been sent to earth to destroy the planet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Emma Stone gets weird again for the new movie \u201cBugonia.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Focus Features<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The local bees are dying, and it\u2019s all because of a space-traveling race of Andromedons.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say, he did not come to this conclusion after flipping through Scientific American.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They knock her out, shave her head, chain her to a cot downstairs and demand that, during the lunar eclipse in four days, she takes them to meet her mothership.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle, like a Salem woman at a witch trial, insists she is not an extraterrestrial being.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, considering the polished corporate nonsense CEOs spout off these days, she sort of talks like a Conehead. That\u2019s what makes the situation funny, in its messed-up way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Michelle is a biomedical CEO who gets captured by conspiracy theorists. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Therein lies the cleverness of the conceit, which is openly taken from the South Korean film \u201cSave the Green Planet!\u201d: Who do you root for? A Big Pharma suit or some greasy wackos who\u2019ve never heard of soap?<\/p>\n<p>For most of \u201cBugonia,\u201d we side squarely with Michelle. Stone, who is predictably fantastic, gets most of the desert-dry jokes and her character is an upstanding professional. Most sensible people agree that nobody deserves to be chloroformed and kidnapped on their commute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her captors, on the other hand, chemically castrate themselves at the beginning to prevent distraction and sound completely crazy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then we learn more about Teddy\u2019s life and predicament, and are reminded that behind every dark-web loon is a real person\u2019s relatable problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Teddy and Don believe Michelle is actually an alien. <span class=\"credit\">Focus Features<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don is especially heartbreaking. Shy and autistic (played with a documentary calmness by Delbis, who\u2019s on the autism spectrum), he\u2019s dragged along by Teddy, expressing doubts all along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And untethered Teddy is some of Plemons\u2019 best and most dialed-in work. Too often in Lanthimos\u2019 movies, the characters float above the action, remaining remote and austere. Quirky, yet bloodless. Plemons\u2019 performance is the opposite of that \u2014 a hair-rising live-wire with steely focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As in \u201cKindness,\u201d there are gory, needle-y and violent scenes that make your stomach lurch. A decapitation here, a shovel bashing in a skull there. The extended electrocution section is particularly squirm-inducing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jesse Plemons does some of his best work so far. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even with all the blood, the middle of the movie, while not losing the audience\u2019s interest, does sag as the hot-tempered interrogations and negotiations go nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>And the ending \u2014 while surely an\u00a0organic-wine-bar talker \u2014 verges on stupid.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lanthimos, despite his usual shopping list of indulgences, compellingly shows how an innocent \u201cwe are not alone\u201d conspiracy theory can dangerously explode into chaos under the right conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I was always tickled by his main role being accused of being an alien \u2014 I\u2019ve been accusing Lanthimos\u2019 characters of being aliens for years!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review BUGONIA Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (Bloody and violent content, suicide, grisly images, language). In select theaters Oct. 24. That \u201cBugonia\u201d is only a tense two hours is a kind of kindness. Director Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 previous collaboration with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, the miserable \u201cKinds of Kindness\u201d in 2024, was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[310048,21741,350537,304995,21912],"class_list":["post-2080076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-emma-stone","tag-entertainment","tag-jesse-plemons","tag-movie-reviews","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Emma-Stone-stars-in-another-flippin-weird-Yorgos-Lanthimos-movie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080078,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080076\/revisions\/2080078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}