Talent Yorgos Lanthimos

Three adults, two men and a woman, embracing intimately in a dimly lit room, with warm orange tones casting a soft glow.
Review

Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

by David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Poor Things review – Lanthimos at his most playful and comedic

by Savina Petkova

Emma Stone gives a career-defining performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ opulent provocation about the human body as a nexus for pleasure and pain.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Nimic

by David Jenkins

Matt Dillon joins Yorgos Lanthimos for this bizarre short about a New York cellist whose life is usurped by a passer-by.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Favourite

by David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is sublime as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period tragicomedy.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

by Trevor Johnston

Yorgos Lanthimos is up to his old tricks in this typically strange and idiosyncratic psycho-thriller.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

The Lobster

by Trevor Johnston

Director Yorgos Lanthimos proves he’s still got plenty left up his sleeve with this dark dystopic satire.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Attenberg

by Jason Wood

Largely eschewing the shock tactics of Dogtooth, Attenberg is arguably superior and certainly more embraceable.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Dogtooth

by Laurence Boyce

Dogtooth is a film that delights in disconcerting the viewer and refuses to supply any easy answers.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect

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