Kinds of Kindness

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Kinds of Kindness

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Released Jun 28, 2024

2h 44m

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KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

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Critics Consensus

A cold-hearted triptych brimming with caustic wit, Kinds of Kindness is Yorgos Lanthimos at his most misanthropic -- and bitingly funny.

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Lanthimos reliably threads the fascinating and discomforting in Kinds of Kindness, a series of entries that may scratch those with an itch for pretentious weirdness and absurd vibes.

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Steve Pond

TheWrap

“Kindness,” which displays precious little of its title virtue, is a cornucopia of black humor, dark thrills and assorted murders, couplings and things that make you go eeewww.

Aug 8, 2024

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Adam Kempenaar

Filmspotting

...a film about the human condition but not about humans.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jul 19, 2024

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Wenlei Ma

The Nightly (AU)

Kinds of Kindness, like the other works from Lanthimos and Filippou’s partnership, is spikier, intentionally mannered, and far more challenging. But at least when you’re squirming, you know you’re not bored.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 13, 2024

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Andrew Kendall

Stabroek News

It might be easy to mistake the bleakness as signs of a filmmaker who looks at his characters with ambivalent contempt but even when the world is cruel, the sharpest thing about “Kinds of Kindness” is how Lanthimos finds dignity in each action.

Apr 13, 2025

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Rick Burin

iNews.co.uk

As with all his American movies, Kinds of Kindness is both unremittingly cruel and unstintingly self-satisfied.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 16, 2025

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

The characters are all deluded and continuously pushed around, under external control of various kinds and in love with that control. They want to be enslaved and abused, they long or even beg for it. It is the only source of genuine pleasure for them.

Jan 13, 2025

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Breckan

A weird yet compelling series of events that questions society and its normalities.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/09/25

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Renata

I love how Dafoe is portrayed almost like a god in these stories

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/24/24

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Brock

Probably the worst film I’ve ever watched. William Defoe and friends owe me money.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/26/24

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Facebook U

Love Emma’s movies but this just had a vibe I couldn’t connect with

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/22/24

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Review Man :)

A return to form for Lanthimos. Not his most accessible movie, but if you like The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, you’ll like this. Personally, I loved those films, and to no one’s surprise, I loved this too!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/25/24

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Jesus Gonzalez

very disappointing movie that's all over the place

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/22/24

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Synopsis

KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Producer: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kasia Malipan
Screenwriter: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Distributor: Searchlight Pictures
Production Co: Element Pictures
Rating: R (Language|Full Nudity|Strong Sexual Content|Strong Violent Content)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 28, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 27, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.0M
Runtime: 2h 44m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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