There might not be a more ill-fitting movie title this year than Kinds of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos’ punishing anthology is a stylish exercise in cruelty, bringing the Greek filmmaker back to the feel-bad roots he had seemingly left behind with the success of The Favourite and Poor Things. But Kinds of Kindness shows that Lanthimos hadn’t so much left those misanthropic tendencies behind as much as he buried them deep down — until he was able to finally unleash them in all their savage and unpleasant glory.
