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In Theaters Now
- 2025
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 58 m
- 2025
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 58 m
Summary Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written By: Will Tracy, Joon-Hwan Jang
In Theaters Now
- 2025
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 58 m
- 2025
- R
- Focus Features
- 1 h 58 m
Bugonia
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Summary Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos
Written By: Will Tracy, Joon-Hwan Jang
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Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 61 Critic Reviews
72
79% Positive
48 Reviews
48 Reviews
16% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
5% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 61 Critic Reviews
72
79% Positive
48 Reviews
48 Reviews
16% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
5% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Nov 1, 2025
While it’s been argued that Lanthimos harbours active disdain for other people, Don reminds us that there’s a poignant streak of empathy to be found in even the most nihilistic of his stories. Hope, in Bugonia, is mostly lost. But not entirely.
Oct 22, 2025
Though I’ve been apprehensive about the flamboyant severity of Lanthimos’ movies, I found “Bugonia,” a chamber-piece gut punch, hard to shake.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 151 User Ratings
7.0
70% Positive
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
15% Mixed
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
15% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 151 User Ratings
7.0
70% Positive
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
15% Mixed
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
15% Negative
23 Ratings
23 Ratings
Nov 27, 2025
Not for the weak, but nevertheless a thought-provoking film. Bugonia challenges its viewers conditioned by their various differences in upbringing to assess humanity and its species as a collective from eons past to present day and what Earth’s destiny we could predict from our ongoing political and socioeconomic events. The question begs, from every display of destruction, war, pain, suffering and power used for nefarious means to every monumental leap of discovery, contribution to society and the flourishing of the arts and sciences for mankind, should we all still deserve a place in the sun for Earth’s future. It forces the viewers to assume the role of God, and be met with a nihilism so undeniable humans are and will always be capable of, leaving us wondering if we could’ve objectively done the same as what Michelle did at the end of the film.
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Nov 21, 2025
Masterpiece. Beautiful, dark, funny, smart, with 2 titanic performance. the movie also has amazing soundtrack
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Oct 27, 2025
Riveting, unhinged, and sardonic to its honey-soaked core, this is another Lanthimos-Stone winner. (With a great opening-title typeface, to boot.)
Nov 6, 2025
Bugonia’s provocative premise doesn’t yield a sci-fi thriller. The film instead offers an intimate, unhurried exploration of human cruelty.
Oct 23, 2025
At once uncomfortable and compelling, Bugonia builds toward a wild and misanthropic final act that plays like nothing less than a sincere rejection of humanity itself. By that point, Lanthimos has kind of made it feel like we have it coming.
Aug 28, 2025
The world isn’t pretty, and Lanthimos is sounding the alarm. If only he would tell us something we don’t already know.
Oct 21, 2025
It’s not a cookie cutter superhero film or predictable horror film. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s form without enough content.
Nov 26, 2025
It was an amazing movie (one of the best in recent years) and easily an 8,5/10 before the terrible last 20 minutes or so that almost completely ruined it for **** sad, because it was ramping **** a wet fart at the end. It was touching a lot of important societal and philosophical subjects that are erased by the goofy ending.
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Oct 29, 2025
Wants to be so much deeper and profound than it actually is. Stone and Lanthimos stuck in neutral.
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Production Company
- Focus Features
- Fremantle
- Element Pictures
- Square Peg
- CJ ENM
- Pith Quest Films
- Fruit Tree
Release Date Oct 24, 2025
Duration 1 h 58 m
Rating R
Tagline It all starts with something magnificent.
Awards
European Film Awards
• 6 Nominations
Astra Film Awards
• 5 Nominations
Montclair Film Festival (MFF)
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
