Kinds of Kindness

Kinds of Kindness is divided into three stories with the same cast. A high level of absurdity and unpredictability mixed with some mystery make for a funny quirky thriller at first. Jesse Plemons excels at making this quirkiness work to the benefit of the movie.

Then the first chapter ends and turns into the second, shuffling things around, which already begins to demand some tolerance and patience from the viewer. Random things are inserted for shock value that amuse at first but then become to seem pretentious.

By the third chapter, the movie has overindulged in random ideas that are appear intended to impress without clear direction. At this point it's just absurdity for the sake of absurdity, which comes across as an underestimation of the critical viewer.

All in all, I enjoyed the first part, and think Plemons did great, but ultimately believe we could've picked a better movie, and intend to stay away from films by this particular director in the future.

I fell asleep watching this film which is extremely rare for me. I was so glad once it was over and the credits rolled.

I am a fan of weird films and I loved "Poor Things", "The Lobster" and other movies Lanthimos has made. This one however was completely random and terribly boring - no consistent storyline, just random scenes playing on screen.

The first third of the movie was the strongest part but even this section of the movie was slow and even though I liked the message it wasn't as thought provoking as it could have been. The script was simply lacking.

Don't watch it in a cinema - watch it at home as second screen content while you do something more interesting.

Kinds of Kindness is an interesting movie about affection, toxic love and kindness, with great cinematography.

My favourite story of the three was definitely the first one. Probably that one had the most realistic elements with the manipulative boss and his manipulated employee. Also, those were the characters closest to being a normal person. While the other two stories were a lot more messed up. The second was about a man, who doesn't believe that the woman who comes through the door of his house is his wife and he starts doing a lot of questionable things to find out if it's her. The third one is about a cult, where the members can only have sex with the leaders of the cult and they are searching for a messiah. While I first one was the most realistic, the third one felt the most fresh, because Emma Stone played the main character and she was the most interesting one out of the while movie.

The cinematography was beautiful, especially in the beginning where there were a lot of symmetrical shots. The editing was great too, the scene with the dog was interestingly edited, but the movie was too long, they could've done a better job with the pacing. The acting was obviously flawless.

Kinds of Kindness is weird, interesting and it has heavy criticism of modern society.

It was 3 hours of nonsense that could've been cut down into a Netflix short, although it was more watchable when it didn't take itself so seriously and had more humour like in the first segment. Emma Stone sank the whole thing in the final 2 hours.

The movie works when it's approaching the surrealism of a Buñuel film, e.g. Exterminating Angel, but then in the final couple segments it devolved into long scenes of Emma Stone randomly talking to people about dogs on an island, or trying to raise the dead, with stiff line delivery.

The director punctuates the boredom with random acts of violence, orgies, nudity, and animal abuse.

It was at the 2 hour mark where I wondered if this is really what the Hollywood elite does on their off-time, and they made a home movie about their debauchery as a tax write-off for Fox Searchlight. We did get to see a very nice yacht and some houses that probably belonged to one of the producers.

This feels like the summer movie for lanthimos' fans 😂

Good piece of art, not at the level of poor things IMHO, but still very interesting. Honestly I felt like with poor things some reviews were searching too much into a "positive ending" or a woman empowerment change... While poor things also had some very dark moments almost like a parody... Well, here we have the usual lanthimos... The one who tends to give us the worst of humanity 😂

I still need to reflect a bit, especially on the 2nd story, but yeah, definitely great dry humour movie. Oh and some scenes will make people talk ... :) This is a funny movie but it's also very harsh

Emma (or Emily 😄) and Jesse and Willem are brilliant as always.