Pick of the week
Kinds of Kindness
Hot on the heels of his Oscar-winning Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’s anthology film has a similarly surreal feel, but is – initially at least – more grounded in the real world. The three tales star the same actors (Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and others) as wildly different characters. Part one features Plemons as a man whose entire life is micromanaged by his boss (Dafoe). The middle chapter focuses on a cop (Plemons) whose missing wife (Stone) returns – but is it really her? The final story concerns a sex cult searching for a person who can reanimate the dead. A delightfully off-kilter comedy of murky morality, played deadpan by a cast with the fetters off.
Out now, Disney+
