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Critics Hail Yorgos LanthimosBugonia as Reviews Land This Week

Early notices emphasize coal-black humor, unsettling violence, and standout turns from Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

Overview

  • Lanthimos’ film is an English-language remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 Save the Green Planet!, with critics describing a sardonic, absurdist approach.
  • The plot follows Teddy Gatz, a conspiracy-minded apiarist, who abducts biotech executive Michelle Fuller after deciding she is an alien in disguise.
  • Reviewers single out the charged face-offs between Stone and Plemons, noting Stone’s on-camera head shaving and Plemons’ layered intensity.
  • Coverage highlights a disquieting black-comedy tone and graphic material, with an R rating for bloody violent content, grisly images, suicide and language.
  • U.S. reviews list an Oct. 31 theatrical opening, with reactions calling the film strange, darkly funny, and potentially divisive.