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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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Critics Consensus

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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Wildly audacious, Bugonia may be the bleakest film yet in Yorgos’ filmography, sure to satiate fans of peculiar, deranged, and pessimistic satire.

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Wenlei Ma

The Nightly (AU)

Bugonia belongs to Jesse Plemons. The desperation, the righteousness and just the sweatiness makes Teddy both magnetic and repulsive.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 5, 2025

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Mark Kermode

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I think I like it.

Nov 4, 2025

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

Lanthimos is, of course, a vital filmmaker and one of our most gifted modern storytellers, but he's never been easier to dismiss than he is with "Bugonia." His unpleasantries have never felt emptier.

Rated: C

Nov 3, 2025

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Emily Wheeler

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Allows the sides to balance and lets Lanthimos land another sharp critique of everyone’s faults.

Nov 7, 2025

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Leigh Paatsch

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

While Stone supplies a performance rife with fierceness and focus, and Lanthimos extracts much black humour from this grim premise, the movie struggles to find a coherent point to make until very late in play.

Rated: 2.5/5

Nov 6, 2025

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Nicolás Delgadillo

Knotfest

You’ll laugh, you’ll flinch, and days later you’ll still be thinking about everything you watched up on that screen.

Nov 6, 2025

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Jon

Really good movie. A lil slow moving in the beginning but it picks up steam and doesn't disappoint

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/07/25

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Ronald S

Riveting story with a bonkers ending

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/07/25

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Howard

Good acting, but heavy handed, predictable story.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/07/25

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Pat H

Loved it! Jesse Plemmons’ best performance ever, Emma Stone was also brilliant. And had the ending I was hoping and praying for the entire time 😎👍🏻

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/06/25

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Madison

One of my top 5 movies of the 2020s. It was amazing to see in a theater.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/06/25

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chance

acting was fantastic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/06/25

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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 31, 2025, Wide
Box Office (Gross USA): $6.0M
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital