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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jo-Ann Titmarsh

Kinds of Kindness review: Emma Stone and Jessie Plemons shine in these intelligent and darkly funny tales

Riding high on the success of their previous collaboration, Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone return with Kinds of Kindness, screening in competition in Cannes.

Any Lanthimos aficionados concerned that their director was starting to look a little mainstream, fear not, for his trademark inventiveness and the surrealism are here in spades, as are acting techniques that recall the staccato register of Lobster.

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