Yorgos Lanthimos
Movie Review: Bugonia
4.5 stars out of 5 This is the best Yorgos Lanthimos film that Yorgos didn’t write himself. (I’m looking at you, well-received Poor Things and The Favourite.) It best captures the very dark comedy that permeates his own scripts. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that Will Tracy wrote the screenplay, as I wasn’t […]
Movie Review: Kinds of Kindness
4.5 stars out of 5 Welcome back, Yorgos! OK, director Yorgos Lanthimos hasn’t exactly been missing in action. His 2023 film Poor Things was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 4 of them. But he didn’t write that movie, or the one before, The Favourite. In fact, it’s been 7 years since Lanthimos and […]
Movie Review: Poor Things
3.5 stars out of 5 Dear Poor Things:Where The Wild Things Are called; it wants its font treatment back. OK, on to the review! For the first 30–45 minutes, I was entranced by this film, laughing out loud, prepared to re-order my top movies of the year, and ready to hand the Best Actress Oscar […]
Movie Review: The Favourite
4 stars out of 5 As I’ve stated before, costume dramas aren’t really my thing. But in the past 2.5 years, Yorgos Lanthimos — with The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Dogtooth (which I saw on home video) — has quickly become one of my fave filmmakers. Plus, we all know my […]
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