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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Overall, though, Bugonia is a strong and at times amusing film.
- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Bugonia doesn’t have the consistent WTF-ness of Lanthimos’ most outlandish projects, something that has made his most acclaimed films so memorable. But it also contains a fair amount of intrigue and two great actors going head-to-head for much of its running time, so it’ll more than likely end up on the positive side of the ledger for most viewers.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A dark dramedy about the excesses of our world and attempts to do something about them.
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: take away the element of surprise and what do you have left? Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons going toe to toe in compellingly contrasting performances. Still, having seen the original Korean film, “Bugonia” proved somewhat underwhelming…
- [New] | Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Excerpt: Lanthimos never disappoints, and “Bugonia” is confirmation that he is still at the top of his game.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A sharp psychological duel, elevated by performances that give its provocation genuine weight.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Grimly hilarious, this mashup of black comedy, social commentary, suspense, and horror is sharp and stinging, with a haunting gut punch of a finale… and it’s Yorgos Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet.
- Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: Emma Stone loses her hair and crushes it once again in this sci-fi kidnapping thriller.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Will Tracy truly cut the chaff from Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! to focus solely on what made it so unique: its paranoid sci-fi conceit.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Amongst my favorite working directors, Yorgos Lanthimos has a way of poking at how we perceive reality that is unsettling, absurdist, and deeply satirical, and with ‘Bugonia’ he applies an unsettling sci-fi edge to further knock us off-kilter. Emma Stone, shaved head and all, is great, but Jesse Plemons proves once again that he too is one of the greats.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Excerpt: Bugonia isn’t a typical hostage situation by any stretch of the imagination; director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Will Tracy play with our biases and perspectives, cheekily throwing our expectations and what we think of as common knowledge out the window.
- Jason Pirodsky @ The Prague Reporter
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: But then, inexplicable torture and gore ensue in Teddy’s basement, and that’s when “Bugonia” irrevocably blasted off my best film list.
- Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Entretém e permite passar um bom bocado enquanto nos tenta lavar o cérebro. Mas ficou aquela sensação que não será um filme para recordar no dia seguinte.
- Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in Bugonia, an incredibly modern-minded, paranoid sci-fi thriller with just the right amount of strange energy about it that only Lanthimos can bring to the screen.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Take-Up
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Pay attention to what it tells us about the differences between rich and poor, the abuse of the general public by pharmaceutical companies, and how much the internet affects people prone to developing conspiracy theories.
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