Kinds of Kindness (2024)

Kinds of Kindness is a triptych drama movie with each having a weird twist and oddity about it.

I knew I was going to see something weird going into a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. The director of The Favourite, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and most recently Poor Things. He has a weird way of telling stories and knows how to do callbacks. He has an attention to detail that most people would miss. He's got another Emma Stone movie coming out next year called Bugonia which I'll be seeing.

Speaking of Stone, she has to play three different roles in the film and each feels drastically unlike the previous. If people continue to see her in these types of roles they will put her alongside Cate Blanchett, Katharine Hepburn, and Meryl Streep. She started out in comedy but it seems she'll end in drama.

Jesse Plemons is not an attractive man, but he knows how to use his delivery to really sell the character he's playing. He doesn't have much diversity but he can at least make them feel different. You might remember him as Gary in Game Night, or that shaded soldier in Civil War. What kind of American are you?

There are some other supporting characters that all did well, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, and the upcoming star Hunter Schafer. Most people might not know who she is but with her role in Euphoria and the anticipated Cuckoo movie, I imagine she'll become more well known. Margaret Qualley was in a pretty bad movie earlier this year in Drive-Away Dolls but she was much better here.

The film is going to be too weird to recommend it to just anyone. For that it's result is a B+

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