{"id":2080765,"date":"2025-10-10T01:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2080765"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:12:13","slug":"emma-stone-stars-in-another-flippin-weird-yorgos-lanthimos-movie-about-conspiracy-theorists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/emma-stone-stars-in-another-flippin-weird-yorgos-lanthimos-movie-about-conspiracy-theorists-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone stars in another flippin\u2019 weird Yorgos Lanthimos movie about conspiracy theorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BUGONIA<\/h2>\n

Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (Bloody and violent content, suicide, grisly images, language). In select theaters Oct. 24.<\/p>\n

That \u201cBugonia\u201d is only a tense two hours is a kind of kindness.<\/p>\n

Director Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 previous collaboration with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, the miserable \u201cKinds of Kindness\u201d<\/a> in 2024, was a punishing two hours and 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

Minutes felt like January days.<\/p>\n

Not true of the trio\u2019s new movie, a zany, comic, icky, smelly thriller about the deadly cocktail of loneliness and web browsing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBugonia\u201d buzzes by, if sometimes nauseastingly, and is a huge improvement from Lanthimos\u2019 episodic drivel last year.<\/p>\n

Even so, I\u2019m exhausted by the \u201cPoor Things<\/a>\u201d auteur\u2019s schtick of overly peculiar tales, fishbowl lenses, fast struts down chic hallways, aloof characters and loud, abrupt music.<\/p>\n

Enough already.<\/p>\n

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

You might have forgotten at this point, but the two-time Oscar winner is quite skilled at playing regular people. God forbid.<\/p>\n

Like Stone\u2019s CEO role here, Michelle, the actress is very much trapped in her \u201cFavourite<\/a>\u201d director\u2019s basement.<\/p>\n

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

\"Emma<\/span><\/div>\n

Emma Stone gets weird again for the new movie \u201cBugonia.\u201d Focus Features<\/p>\n

The local bees are dying, and it\u2019s all because of a space-traveling race of Andromedons.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, he did not come to this conclusion after flipping through Scientific American.<\/p>\n

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

Michelle, like a Salem woman at a witch trial, insists she is not an extraterrestrial.<\/p>\n

But, considering the polished corporate nonsense CEOs spout these days, she sort of talks like a Conehead. That\u2019s what makes the situation funny, in its messed-up way.<\/p>\n

\"Michelle<\/span><\/div>\n

Michelle is a biomedical CEO who gets captured by conspiracy theorists. AP<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

Her captors, on the other hand, chemically castrate themselves at the beginning to prevent distraction and sound completely crazy.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Teddy<\/span><\/div>\n

Teddy and Don believe Michelle is actually an alien. Focus Features<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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-raising live-wire with steely focus.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Jesse<\/span><\/div>\n

Jesse Plemons does some of his best work so far. AP<\/p>\n

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

And the ending \u2014 while surely an\u00a0organic-wine-bar talker \u2014 verges on stupid.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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