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Sep 27, 2026
8
A spectacular film with superb acting. The screenplay dips a bit towards the end, but that's probably normal given how the plot unfolds."
Aug 23, 2026
6
A Diluted Remake That Sacrifices Cult Madness for Subdued Corporate Satire.260730 (2.8)Bigger and more fragrant, yet why does the visual texture feel so underwhelming? The emotional swell that should have boiled over and spilled onto the screen is merely served flat, like a poorly prepared American school lunch. The door we are expected to gaze upon, sitting closer to the inferior chair, feels utterly ambiguous. The hollow, scoff-inducing fanfare of the "winner" is terribly dull. The story follows Teddy Gatz, a delivery worker at Auxolis who keeps beekeeping as a side gig. Inheriting none of Lee Byeong-gu's brilliant intellect, he is reduced to a typical, easily swayed conspiracy theorist who dies instantly by his own homemade explosive before his core motivations are even fully fleshed out. Living with Teddy is his cousin Donny, an intellectually disabled young man who assists Teddy with an innocent heart, yet unable to fully trust him, asks in deep depression to be taken to Andromeda before dying by suicide. Sandy Gatz raised Teddy alone in place of an abusive father, now lying in a coma due to the opioid painkillers marketed by Auxolis. Likely influenced by the drugs, she rambles and feeds paranoid conspiracies to Teddy, ultimately dying when a deceived Teddy injects her with antifreeze. Michelle Fuller stands as the CEO of Auxolis; despite being forty-five, she maintains a strikingly youthful and beautiful appearance, wielding more regional influence than the state governor. She represents a classic, vicious corporate elite who sweeps opioid crises under the rug with shameless apologies, penalizes injured workers through strict quotas, and cruelly dictates that while workers may leave at 17:35 sharp in response to an employee suicide from overwork, their tasks must still be completed regardless of hours. Deputy Sheriff Casey, who babysat Teddy twenty years ago, makes excuses about his past actions while continuing to harbor vile pedophilic predatory impulses. Given the proven track record of the duo behind "The Favourite" and "Poor Things", expectations were high for this remake. To enjoy it thoroughly, I reviewed the original "Save the Green Planet!" beforehand and watched them back-to-back. While the original shone with TransFixion's soundtrack, a Korean leader presiding over the supreme council, and the Korean language class in the end sequence, this remake suffers from notable shortcomings: Teddy fails to match Byeong-gu's bizarre, manic intensity, the third-party tension is remarkably weak, the tone hesitates between absurd comedy and genuine suspense, homages to sci-fi classics are omitted, and the motive behind the galactic emperor's mission remains vague. The CGI dividing the chapters gradually flattens into a flat-Earth model as the lunar eclipse nears, amplifying Teddy's conspiratorial mindset while visually echoing the Earth model in the Andromedan mothership's master control. Unlike the 2003 Korean prince who obliterated the Earth with a laser, the 2025 American emperor casually pops the delicate honeycomb barrier shielding the planet, resulting in an equal, peaceful, and clean extinction of humanity. Dogs, cats, delivery boxes, and bees reclaim their natural time, while the dinosaurs—the perfect life forms so beloved by the Andromedans—stand tall as fossils alongside living dinosaur toys. The investigative logic in Washington State feels bafflingly inept, failing to track down an amateur duo on bicycles who fled in Michelle's own car. I expected a wilder creative vision from the director and production team, but it settled into an overly subdued, toned-down drama.
Aug 18, 2026
8
Greetings from Lithuania.
"Bugonia" (2025) is a movie in which driving force was amazing acting and writing. Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons - both amazing here and Aidan Delbis - what a first time performance! Writing by Yorgos Lanthimos was superb. As the story goes - it was interesting enough to keep me glued to my screen for the entire run time 1 h 50 min. The ending is kinda "take it or leave it", and I will say no more. Overall, "Bugonia" is best viewed without any spoilers of course nor even plot details - that is how I saw it and liked it very much. Not the film I would revisit ever again, but for one viewing I do recommend it.
Aug 6, 2026
8
Bugonia is a strange film, extremely strange, but also highly entertaining. From the beginning, it makes clear that it has no interest in resembling anything conventional. It mixes black comedy, thriller, science fiction, social satire and explicit violence around a central idea that is both absurd and **** story brings together two characters who appear to live in completely different worlds. One is a powerful executive convinced that she controls every situation. The other is a man trapped inside his own theories, certain that he has discovered a truth nobody else can see. Their confrontation gradually becomes a disturbing battle between two incompatible versions of reality.Emma Stone is excellent. She gives the character enormous presence and moves between confidence, fear, manipulation and vulnerability. We are never entirely sure whether she is being sincere, trying to control the situation or simply fighting to survive.Jesse Plemons may be even better. His character could easily have become a simple conspiracy-theorist caricature, but Plemons makes him far more unsettling. He is ridiculous, dangerous, pathetic and human at the same time. He believes his own ideas so completely that every opposing argument becomes further evidence that he is **** film often recalls Fargo. Characters speak with complete seriousness while everything around them becomes increasingly absurd. The humour comes from discomfort, unexpected reactions and people making terrible decisions while convinced they are behaving logically.There are several very funny moments, although the film never searches for easy laughs. Its humour is dry, uncomfortable and cruel. Sometimes it becomes impossible to know whether to laugh or worry, and that uncertainty is where the film works **** is also extremely violent in places. Bloodshed arrives suddenly and completely changes the tone of certain scenes. The violence is not used only for shock value, but to remind us that paranoia can have real consequences.Yorgos Lanthimos controls the mixture remarkably well. The film can move from absurd conversation to genuine horror without feeling like a different story. His familiar emotional coldness remains, but the clear suspense and central conflict make this one of his more accessible **** use of spaces, sound and silence constantly increases tension. Many scenes play like theatrical confrontations between the two leads. Every line may be a threat, a lie or an attempt to discover what the other person truly **** film also speaks directly to the present. It explores distrust of corporations, conspiracy theories, the ease with which suspicion can become absolute truth and the way the internet allows people to construct entire worlds where every belief eventually finds **** it does not simply mock those who believe in conspiracies. It is equally suspicious of powerful companies and of people with enough influence to decide what counts as truth, what must remain hidden and who can be sacrificed along the way. Nobody emerges with much **** times, the film may insist too strongly on its own strangeness. Some scenes run long, certain ideas could be explored more deeply and its cruelty may push some viewers away. Even so, it never becomes **** greatest achievement is maintaining uncertainty for most of the running time. Our assumptions constantly change, and the film keeps suggesting that any of its characters may be right, lying or completely detached from **** final section is especially strong. The film becomes darker, bloodier and even more absurd, yet it remains controlled until a conclusion that perfectly matches its pessimistic view of humanity.Bugonia will not work for everyone. It is uncomfortable, cruel, strange and occasionally unpleasant. It is also original, funny, surprising and exceptionally well **** kind of film that ends and immediately demands discussion. Whether you love it or hate it, it was certainly not designed to disappear quietly.
Jun 4, 2026
4
Boring, pretentious movie is meant to be a thriller / horror, with a stellar 'oscar worthy' casts. It's not thrilling. It's not scary. It has the tone of a satire but it's not funny. It looks like it was made for less of a million when in fact it's budget was 50 million dollars. I think these Hollywood executives has got to think really hard who they gave their money to. On one hand, they looked down on their audiences and gave them 'franchise' pictures like Mandalorian and Grogu that are so generic. Then they gave this movie so much money as the director is a so called 'auteur'. A film that was so left field that nobody wants to watch. Both the Backroom and Obsession, 2026's 'sensations' were made for so little, with so much impact, should give them a lesson on things that people really want to see at home and in cinemas.
May 30, 2026
7
So many movies have disappointed me but here's a movie that delivers, though it's offbeat. Offbeat can be good and this is one of those examples. The acting by everybody was good and Emma Stone blew me away. Don't know anything about her as I'm not celeb-oriented so I wonder is she always this good? But as I wrote, everybody did a good job. Little bit of a different soundtrack and sound effects as well, fitting the style of the movie: humor mixed with dead seriousness. The camera work and editing was done superbly. Also the genera atmosphere was well done - something most movies do not well. The big reveal made sense to me and I was happy with it, but the ultimate world-hating nihilistic ending bothers me a bit. It doesn't seem to fit the rest of the film before all that. Absolutely watch this movie if you like an approach which depends less on the usual Hollywood formulas.
May 21, 2026
9
Didn't know what to expect when I watched this movie randomly. Emma Stone,Jesse Plemons, and Aidan Delbris synergy on camera was superb. This movie did a great job of having comedy but maintaining a sense of danger and mystery to it. The movie was a great display of holding the camera. Each actor held me in the moment. The end was a delightful twist. I actually bought this for my collection.
May 19, 2026
7
Well acted. Definitely not a main stream movie, but the leads do a great job selling the story. Enjoyable, if a bit of an uncomfortable watch, for me at least. Worth watching, in my book.
May 12, 2026
0
I was onboard for about 90% of the movie, the flat-earther/conspiracy theorist mind was intriguing but the ending is just botched, it renders the movie a complete farce. Where do I start? First the Andromedans chose earth when their galaxy is twice as populous in stars as ours is, with many more possibilities of having planets in the goldilock zone for them to play with. Then we are to believe that they have been playing with the earth and mankind for so long that erasing it doesn't change the fact that the "Bugonia myth" of bees rising from the carcass of a dead ox is a failure. By provoking the death of all humans on earth whilst claiming that it's to save the earth from humans, the andromedans have actually condemned the earth: 8.3 billion of carcasses rotting is a perfect recipe for breeding flies, hornets, and all sorts of pretty bad insects that feast on rotting carcasses, not to mention rats and others scavengers. The human systems are also left on, which creates instantaneous immense pollution from which the earth doesn't recover. And even if that was not enough, eliminating mankind doesn't mean that evolution stops... it takes a 10-15 million year detour from the great apes that still are free and then we are back to square one after that. Additionally, Teddy's explosion is just laughable, if he is a kind of prepper, he is not going to explode spontaneously like that. With a better ending, Teddy would have been brought to the Andromedans who would have looked at him, analyzed his failures and then erased mankind and their creation in a Thanos-style. Alas, the story prefers 8.3 billion rotting corpses. Good concept, good acting up to Michelle's monologue, after that, it goes down the drain and basically sabotages all the work that was done before that. It's quite funny because the message of the movie is even sabotaged by the nihilistic contradictions that the filmmakers ironically didn't even see coming...
May 10, 2026
4
The irony of this film is that Emma Stone's career has been held hostage by Yorgos Lanthimos, and his film Bugonia is about a career woman, played by Emma Stone, who is held hostage. It's yet another film by Lanthimos in which he snickers at the pain and misfortune of others as they torture one another and themselves. Can we all agree that Lanthimos is mentally ill and rescue Emma Stone now?
Apr 12, 2026
8
Emma Stone delivers a great performance here as a cool, calculating CEO who has been kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’ character. The standout, however, is definitely Jesse, who gives a phenomenally sharp, unpredictable, and layered performance. He brings a level of instability and anger to his character, but also moments of kindness and vulnerability that really work. What carries this film is the tension and conflict between the two, making it a genuinely compelling watch.Additionally, the cinematography and visuals are wonderful, with colours that truly pop, complemented by a music score that heightens the tension. However, what ultimately brings the film down is that it doesn’t quite stick the landing. The ending is predictable and feels a bit too on the nose in delivering its message. Still, this is an enjoyable film that illustrates the dangers of unhealthy delusions and class conflict.
Mar 31, 2026
5
Can not lie, the end was a good plot twist but it was wasted and I felt kinda lost.
Mar 24, 2026
9
Me pareció una película muy creativa y bien hecha. Tiene una historia poco convencional que engancha desde el inicio. Es una obra maestra: rara, oscura, divertida e inteligente.
Mar 25, 2026
10
Bugonia fits squarely within the “science fiction as metaphor” tradition, where the question being asked is both philosophical and incredibly consequential. Underneath the alien paranoia and kidnapping plot lies a delightfully quirky character study reflected through a **** lens. As a fan of challenging sci-fi, I loved it. Highly Recommended. detroitcineaste
Mar 20, 2026
2
I saw the twist from 2.5 million light years away. It was really the only way the movie could end. The environmental theme was tacked on so clumsily that they may as well have cast a crying Indian. Very ham-handed and preachy. But the performances were great and salvaged the film for the most part. A fun little romp. Emma Stone is always awesome and watchable.
Mar 18, 2026
7
Wonderfully acted with Stone and Plemons playing perfectly opposite of each other. The story keeps you invested as well. It is a very satisfying remake that holds up to the original. My only gripe is that it is a good 10-15 minutes too long. There could have been some easy editing to trim down the runtime to quicken the pace a bit.
Feb 18, 2026
10
It is tragically funny. It is touching a lot of themes that are relevant.Yorgos did an amazing job in directing this film(Oscar worthy). Jesse gives a Powerhouse acting and should have been nominated for an Oscar. The set production is amazingly detailed. Emma is new gen titan in acting. Beautiful casting and costumes. It is a must watch.
Feb 16, 2026
8
Actually, the first thing that stands out to me (other than Emma Stone’s “rock” solid performance), is the film’s musical score - fantabulous use of instruments and the musical arrangements seem to beckon a bygone era of cinema. This was alright, especially at a time when we seem to be struggling to make a decent film with ACTING and not just shock value from an overload of CGI and flashy digital effects.
Feb 9, 2026
7
Bugonia is a compelling film that succeeds largely due to Emma Stone’s outstanding performance. She brings depth and emotional precision to a role that demands vulnerability, anchoring the film with confidence and range. The supporting cast complements her well, delivering consistently strong performances that enhance the story’s impact. The film tackles weighty themes such as mental health, mental illness, and social status with intention and restraint, allowing the narrative to feel both timely and thought-provoking. Bugonia is a well-executed film and a recommendation for audiences seeking substance alongside strong performances.
Feb 3, 2026
9
It's one of the most interesting movies I've seen lately. You should definitely watch it. It's worth your time.
Feb 1, 2026
1
Like a lot of Marxist arthouse cinema, this film is designed to frustrate. It tells a nihilistic, world-hating story in an intentionally broken format. However, not everyone is looking for order, meaning, or beauty. Some people’s lives are so bad that uplift is not comforting. It is insulting.There should be movies for that state of mind too, movies that do not encourage you, but serve no purpose other than to reflect your bleak outlook back at you. If you want the rational to collapse and the beautiful to become haunted, this delivers.
Jan 26, 2026
8
Blaming conspiracies and secret societies for what they perceive as the orchestrated collapse of fair society, a Dollar Store Charles Manson (Jesse Plemons) and his neurodivergent cousin/acolyte (Aidan Delbis, making his feature film debut) clumsily kidnap the high-profile CEO of a major pharmaceutical company (Emma Stone). They’re sure she’s an incognito extraterrestrial, their ticket to an audience with Adromedan royalty, and subject her to all manner of bizarre tinfoil-hat tortures to prove as much. The socio-political parallels are pretty clear here, with both ideological extremes mocked and stereotyped in similar fashion. Stone’s cold, callous capitalist is every bit the loathsome mogul type, Jeff Bezos in pumps, splashing on ultra-chic trappings while grinding the working class beneath her heel. A face for our corporate distrust that’s remarkably easy to objectify and hate... right up until she’s shaved bald and left shivering in a dark, dingy basement cell. Her captors, meanwhile, are eccentric hayseeds, the type of grassroots wackjobs who call late night talk radio shows to debate ESP and crop circles. We can relate with their pain and frustration, recognize their impotence as helpless cogs in a gigantic machine, while still blanching at the lengths of their violent recourse. Whether purposeful or not, this setup almost exactly mirrors the Luigi Mangione killing and once I recognized that, I couldn’t stop seeing the overlaps. I get it, I don’t like being abused by the big players either, but I’m not quite ready to start gunning down board members in the street. Or lathering them with lotion and strapping them to a car battery, as it were. If that makes Bugonia sound like a total drag, commentary with a hint of plot, then I’ve given the wrong impression. There’s rich, dark humor in the absurdity of all this, doled out with patience and efficiency. High-pressure tension, too, as both parties try to meet in the middle and cracks show in the captor-captive veneer. Plemons and Stone flash a great rapport as contradictory mouthpieces with an equally passionate faith in their beliefs. It kept me on the hook throughout, vibrant metaphors for societal disarray and crazy, twisting head games alike. And holy crap, what an ending! Faced with a resolution that might have favored one party or the other, Bugonia determines that we’re all wrong. And right. And brilliant in our misguided stupidity. I love that it went there.
Jan 15, 2026
8
Does a perfect work of lampooning corporate culture, conspiracy theorists, as well as we the audience. Possibly we the audience most of all. While the script and actors are excellent, the real success of this movie is found in how it constantly subverts the movie viewer's "common sense" guesses about what is true and what is false in this film, and eventually defying a safe ending. I, for one, did not like the ending of this **** for reasons which I respect, therefore it raised the score I gave it.
Jan 11, 2026
6
Entertaining but the plot was not as gripping as I had hoped. Glad they went the direction they did with the ending
Jan 8, 2026
8
Bugonia es una película rara, pero rara con intención. Juega con la paranoia, las conspiraciones y el miedo moderno a no saber quién tiene realmente el control. Su tono mezcla comedia incómoda con sci-fi existencial, logrando momentos que te hacen reír… y otros que te hacen pensar “ok, esto ya no es tan chistoso”. No es una experiencia cómoda ni tradicional, pero sí muy estimulante. De esas pelis que se sienten frescas, diferentes y que te dejan hablando de ellas después. Ideal si te gusta el cine que se atreve a ser extraño sin pedir perdón.
Dec 31, 2025
9
Film is a masterpiece in walking a razor thin line between two potentialities and never once flinched. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.
Dec 30, 2025
10
The elites showed the true shape of the earth in this movie. Not entirely accurate but showed a firmament where the main evil character busted it and all humans died by oxygen deprivation. You can see there’s two moons. And they showed that Antarctica surrounds all the other continents as the outer rim icy and large continent. Earth is indeed flat!
Dec 28, 2025
10
La mejor película del año definitivamente es BUGONIA. Ya denle todos los premios!
Dec 27, 2025
9
Loved the tone, the character interactions, the story, the dialogue. Mixed feelings about the ending.
Dec 26, 2025
10
Finally saw the film and became one of my top 10 for 2025. Plemons Oscar worthy performance and steals the show. Loved everything about the film.
Dec 22, 2025
10
deliciously dark, tongue-in-cheek, tragic, camp, a masterpiece in tonal balancing, Yorgos has become a late modern Euripides
Dec 22, 2025
8
It's tense, disturbing, paranoid and occasionally violent at a perfect balance, delivering enough doubt and distraction to maintain some surprise and poignancy. It has the bones of a psychological horror film but goes the other way into black comedy territory, resulting in an entertaining and unusual watch.
Dec 21, 2025
0
It's a real shame, because about two-quarters of the film are really good. Technically brilliant. The acting is first-rate; I recommend watching it in the original language. Unfortunately, the dialogue becomes unnecessarily drawn out and cumbersome from the halfway point onward. The constant violence, both psychological and physical, is almost unbearable in my opinion, and I had hoped for some respite, which only came towards the end… completely out of place. The depiction of violence, which constantly escalates into more extreme forms without any discernible justification, is also the reason why I can't recommend the film. The artistry is completely lacking here
Dec 18, 2025
3
Photography is great. But that's unfortunately the only thing nice about this movie.
Dec 19, 2025
6
Far from having the same emotional impact. I had high expectations with Lanthimos directing the Irish version of 'Save the Green Planet', the South Korean film on which this remake is based. The cinematography is mesmerizing; the photography is beautiful and draws the viewer in from the very first moment, accompanied by a soundtrack that is both atmospheric and pleasing to the ears. However, I don’t find the initial sadism of the original, and the aggression is much more diluted here, though it is still present—and in fact, it is what gives the film most of its strength. This version takes an approach I wasn’t expecting, focusing heavily on social and political critique, which left me somewhat disappointed, as I had hoped for a pure science fiction experience. The plot holds together through fairly predictable decisions. One thing I didn’t understand at first was the inclusion of a character like Don (Aidan Delbis), which raises questions about the need for such psychological portraits. It doesn’t bother me, but it wasn’t what I expected; I had been hoping for two completely eccentric, off-the-wall characters. Some differences from the original are successful and give the film its own identity. The soundtrack is immersive and fully draws me into the story. Neither Emma Stone nor Jesse Plemons stand out; I didn’t feel their charisma. The symbolism and abstract elements are unexpected, though relatively coherent with the tone. 'Bugonia' doesn’t disappoint, but it does leave the viewer with mixed feelings.
Dec 11, 2025
10
There are films that are not made to please everyone, and this is one of them. Based on a Korean film, Lanthimos's hallmark is notorious for its surreal and bizarre characters, with a final act that would leave even the Devil himself perplexed.
Dec 10, 2025
8
Wow, Jessie Plemons and Emma Stone are top notch in this film, I couldnt stop watching it! The direction and score are great, although the story itself is bordering on bizarre. It includes foci on subversion, conspiracy theory, mental health, the spectrum of autism, grief and the madness of corporate greed Well worth a viewing, and I’d definitely watch it again!
Dec 7, 2025
6
In ‘Bugonia,’ Yorgos Lanthimos escapes from the boredom and empty provocation of the ‘Kind of Kindness’ triptych, but without reaching the exquisite strangeness unfolded in ‘The Favourite.’ Although it’s relieving to see the Greek director leave behind the self-parody of his previous effort, in this new one, which feels as contained as ‘Kindness’ but with a greater thematic ambition, his nihilistic perspective already seems somewhat exhausted and increasingly superficial. There is no doubt that the film delivers with the acting battle between Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone; however, everything around them lacks the edge of Lanthimos’ early films and the absurdity derived from the Korean movie for which this works as a remake. Referring to ‘Save the Green Planet!,’ what ‘Bugonia’ loses in the bizarre wins in eloquence, but you can’t help to think that this may be Lanthimos’ ‘Eddington,’ an oversimplification of a complex sociopolitical dynamic that shields behind ambiguity to be seen as subversive. Loved the vibe, the photography, and the music, but perhaps it’s time for Yorgos to take a long break, regroup, and come back in the future with a renewed spirit.
Dec 5, 2025
5
The performances in "Bugonia" are great, and the writing is creative. However, it ultimately feels like just another weird and violent film, joining the ranks of many weird and violent films released over the past decade. It seems that "Bugonia" reflects the weird and violent society we have become.
Dec 3, 2025
8
Bugonia começa em ritmo avassalador, com uma Emma Stone perfeita no papel e uma direção segura e limpa, mesmo com as bizarrices. O grande problema aqui é o terço final, entregando-se ao esperado com um universo inclusive tecnicamente feio. Assim, podendo soar mais reflexivo, jogou as cartas no peso da atuação da querida e num sentido de desfecho que, mesmo não sendo explícito, não ultrapassou a linha do superficial. Mas o grego continua em alta!
Dec 3, 2025
7
This was exceptionally well made and performed. I just don't really align with Yorgos that much these days on the themes of his movies. I did enjoy the ending of this one. If your gonna go for it you might as well do it all the way.
Dec 2, 2025
0
Lanthimos should really turn to beekeeping. Dogtooth was a great work of art. All his ingeniosity was spent there. There is no artistry here. Cartoon like plot.
Nov 25, 2025
8
Bugonia might be my favorite Yorgos Lanthimos film. I’ve admired his work before, but this one struck a balance he rarely achieves so cleanly; Deeply unsettling, sharply funny, and strangely humane all at once. The shifting power dynamics between the characters had me hooked. Emma Stone delivers one of her coldest and most commanding performances yet, and Jesse Plemons is absolutely magnetic as an obsessive idealist spiraling into something darker and more unpredictable. Visually, Bugonia is stunning. The cinematography and the eerie, paranoid score create an atmosphere that feels theatrical, claustrophobic, and oddly beautiful. Overall, Bugonia is bold, unsettling, darkly hilarious; At least for me.
Nov 30, 2025
9
Mr. Lanthimos just never misses, does he? What a three strikes in three years in a row, i just loved every shot in Bugonia, as weird and silly as the story gets, from the very beginning, the film locks you in, it immediately pulls you into this unsettling vibe, and a huge part of that comes from Jesse Plemons, whose characters belief feels so real and deeply rooted that you can't help but get drawn into his perspective, no matter how uncomfortable it becomes, i wasn't even surprised by the ending, i could already sense it coming, and i didn't mind at all. The overall structure works so well, and the performances are incredible across the board, especially from Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, Aidan Delbis is also fascinatingly noticeable, adding an extra layer of discomfort and unease to the whole film. I get why some people might not find it as engaging, but i genuinely love this kind of weirdness Yorgos always brings, maybe his previous two films (Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness) felt more engaging in terms of story and style, but Bugonia hits me as this purely unsettling yet fascinating experience, out of his recent three, this might be the most disturbing one for me, and it was an incredible ride. With Plemons completely embodying his character and Stone being amazing as always, along with the rest of the cast, Bugonia easily stands as one of the best films of the year.
Nov 30, 2025
7
Bugonia is Yorgos Lanthimos at his most acidic and, at the same time, most restrained. The adaptation of Save the Green Planet! embraces absurdity and satirical humor, but relies on a surprisingly didactic script, leaving less room for the subtext that usually characterizes the director.Even so, the tension works, the social commentary is current, and the duel between the characters sustains the film from beginning to end. Emma Stone is great, as always, but it is Jesse Plemons who really steals the show, delivering one of the sharpest performances of his **** ending, of course, is pure Lanthimos: uncomfortable, funny, and incisive. Bugonia may not be the director's most profound work, but it is certainly one of his most entertaining and venomous.Translated with **** (free version)