Overview
- Focus Features widens the release on Oct. 31 after a limited Oct. 24 opening, with an R rating for bloody violent content including a suicide, grisly images and language.
- Rotten Tomatoes shows a high critics score around 90% and Certified Fresh status, with multiple outlets noting notable negative reviews alongside broad praise.
- Critics widely hail Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, while autistic newcomer Aidan Delbis earns breakout notices for his performance as Don.
- The film follows two conspiracy believers who kidnap a pharmaceutical CEO they claim is an alien, adapting Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 cult film Save the Green Planet!.
- Several reviews describe the movie as darkly surreal, violent and timely, with some calling it one of Lanthimos’s more accessible works and suggesting awards potential for the leads.