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Bugonia

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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.
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Bugonia

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Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are at the top of their game in Bugonia, a bonkers entertainment that applies director Yorgos Lanthimos' whip-smart method to modern society's madness.

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India Block London Evening Standard The final scenes are pure cinema. You’ll need it as catharsis for surviving the unrelenting tragedy of the first hour, where laughs are scant. Rated: 3/5 Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Linda Marric HeyUGuys Lanthimos’ absurdist worldview has never felt sharper or more relevant, and Stone continues to prove she’s his ideal muse. It’s not a perfect film, but it’s a fascinating one. Rated: 4/5 Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Johnny Oleksinski New York Post A zany, comic, icky, smelly thriller about the deadly cocktail of loneliness and web browsing. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 9, 2025 Full Review Dan Scully ScullyVision The interstitials which show imagery of an increasingly flattened Earth remove any thematic subtlety — and let’s face it, subtlety is not in the Lanthimos playbook. Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Edgar Ortega The Cinema Spot Bugonia depicts a kind of paranoia that should spark debates around systematic oppression, but ultimately favors style over substance. Rated: 2.5/5 Oct 14, 2025 Full Review Amelia Harvey Nerdspin Lanthimos is unusually restrained in Bugonia, toning back many of his trademarks. The genre stylings are replaced by a 21st-century paranoia and an uncharacteristic bleakness. Rated: B Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis 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.
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Producer
Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko
Screenwriter
Will Tracy
Distributor
Focus Features
Production Co
Focus Features , Element Pictures, Square Peg, Fruit Tree, CJ ENM
Rating
R (Bloody Violent Content|Suicide|Grisly Images|Language)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 24, 2025, Limited
Runtime
1h 58m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital