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Kinds of Kindness: Lanthimos Unplugged

A year on from Lanthimos' three-part anthology, the film reads cleaner than the reviews made it sound. An argument for what happens when a director stops worrying about being liked.

Lena Ashworth·20 Aug·5 min

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Poor Things: Lanthimos Unleashed

Emma Stone's performance as Bella Baxter does something almost no leading actress is allowed to do in a studio film: she becomes less polite, less articulate, less easy to root for, and the film rewards her for it.

Lena Ashworth·15 Mar·4 min