Kinds of Kindness
Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: June 21, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 58 Critic Reviews
Positive:
38
Mixed:
14
Negative:
6
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38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJun 27, 2024
It’s a luxe treatment of some puny satiric ideas, toned up by a cast led by Emma Stone and Lanthimos first-timer Jesse Plemons, who won the best actor prize this year at Cannes. But everything has a chance to go wrong with a movie long before the actors film anything. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineRyan ColemanJun 18, 2024
The abstraction is presented with cloying cuteness, the sadism is juvenile and purposeless, and the humor is stomach-turningly glib. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 5, 2024
Kinds of Kindness is an obscurant, indulgent wank — two hours and forty-five minutes of cryptic cruelty, messianic fervor, cannibalism and perhaps a metaphoric peek at the futility of faith, the limits of dogma and the eagerness of the indoctrinated to be exploited. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJun 25, 2024
The best thing that can be said for “Kinds of Kindness” is that it’s never quite boring, despite being 164-minutes long and lacking much of a story. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJun 20, 2024
The failed attempt at cleverness in Lanthimos’ movie is that nobody is actually kind here; they are inordinately cruel. There’s nothing wrong with that — so is Richard III — but these exploits are not particularly entertaining or profound, only random and repetitive. Read full review
17
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 25, 2024
A truly torturous experience for almost everyone involved – up to and including the starry cast of Lanthimos regulars, who must now surely realize they have been duped by a master cinematic con artist – the film is an aggressively juvenile and tedious dissection of the notion of free will. Read full review
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