Spoiler Warning: The following article contains some major spoilers for the Bugonia ending. If you haven’t watched the new Emma Stone movie, please check it out with a Peacock subscription and then return.
Like a lot of people I know, I spent much of my holiday break working my way through the backlog of great 2025 movies I never got around to watching the first 51 weeks of the year. The 138th and final new cinematic adventure before the stroke of midnight was Bugonia, the latest (and perhaps best) collaboration between Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos. Though I knew critics called this quirky thriller a “mesmerizing riot,” I went into it blind, not knowing about any twists or turns that awaited.
