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Bugonia Opens in Cinemas as Lanthimos Reunites Stone and Plemons for a Dark Corporate-Conspiracy Satire

Critics highlight a tense, language-driven hostage drama that probes how corporate power and conspiratorial grievance collide.

Overview

  • Reviews describe a claustrophobic story in which two working‑class men abduct a biomed CEO they believe is an alien plotting Earth’s destruction.
  • Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons draw widespread praise for electric performances that turn the standoff into a battle over rhetoric and control.
  • The film satirizes management speak and capitalism while engaging themes of opioid-related harm, class precarity and bee-collapse anxieties.
  • Several outlets note graphic brutality and torture sequences, with some critics arguing the violence occasionally feels excessive.
  • Bugonia is a loose remake of 2003’s Save the Green Planet! updated by writer Will Tracy, and one outlet reports a German theatrical release on October 30, 2025.