Kinds of Kindness
Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: June 21, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
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Generally favorable reviews based on 58 Critic Reviews
Positive:
38
Mixed:
14
Negative:
6
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60
Film ThreatDan LybargerJul 12, 2024
What I loved about Lanthimos’ earlier movies was that they moved my heart while making me squirm. With Kinds of Kindness, his Tin Man could use a lot more heart. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJun 30, 2024
It’s impossible to endure all this – the film is sporadically funny but it’s also emotionally arid, mannered, and overlong – without making a link between the power plays on screen and Lanthimos’s approach as a film-maker. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJun 26, 2024
It is plainly the work of talented individuals, but it ultimately leaves you with little to show for your patience other than a pounding headache. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 24, 2024
There’s something about a lot of the film as a whole that makes it feel as if Lanthimos is trying a little too hard. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithJun 20, 2024
It’s a film that demands to be watched several times to figure it out, but although I occasionally enjoyed its mordant humor, it’s so unpleasant that it’s hard to sit through once. Read full review
60
Time OutDave CalhounMay 20, 2024
Some who found his last two films an eccentric romp might end up feeling like some of the unfortunate folk in this – bruised, battered and stuck – but anyone who shares Lanthimos’s pleasure at swatting his humans like flies will surely extract wry pleasure from it. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberMay 18, 2024
They're all beautifully performed, and they all sparkle with Lanthimos's deadpan genius: in his world, everything is just off-kilter enough to be funny, but just real enough to be horrifying. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyMaureen Lee LenkerMay 18, 2024
With their abrupt violence, grotesque body horror, and mordant sense of humor, all three of the stories feel more aligned with Lanthimos’ earlier style, The audacity that has so defined Lanthimos and Stone’s work together remains, but here, it takes on a nastiness that becomes tedious the longer the film stretches on (and on and on to a nearly three-hour running time). Read full review
50
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonJun 27, 2024
Fans of Lanthimos’s works outside his Emma Stone movies will find “Kinds of Kindness” worth watching. As for the rest of us: You’ll start out clapping along with “Sweet Dreams,” but by the end, you’ll be singing Peggy Lee’s immortal question, “Is That All There Is?” Read full review
50
The New YorkerJustin ChangJun 27, 2024
It’s telling that, in a picture that exudes more than a whiff of artistic fatigue, the newcomer to Lanthimos’s company supplies the freshest impact. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonJun 24, 2024
Kinds of Kindness runs nearly three hours in length and reveals nothing more than our eagerness to give him the benefit of the doubt. We’re here for the sick thrills. Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 20, 2024
Kinds of Kindness is too parched and mannered to be either disturbing or funny or both—and not even its capable cast can rescue it. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerJun 27, 2024
There’s an insufferable longwindedness to Kinds of Kindness, each installment dragging on beyond the point of patience. Watching becomes a chore, made heavier by Robbie Ryan’s often flat cinematography and the pacing created by Lanthimos’ longtime editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis. Read full review
40
Total FilmAnna SmithMay 20, 2024
You might care to see this as an allegory about power, sex and control, but it doesn’t feel like it’s saying anything particularly profound. Read full review
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