Bugonia

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Bugonia

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In Theaters Oct 24

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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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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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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

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Linda Marric

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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