Netflix Just Quietly Added 2025's Most Shocking Alien-Invasion Comedy Put on your tinfoil hats: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons' paranoid comedy 'Bugonia' is now streaming on Netflix. Inverse · Apr 30
Why Bugonia should win the best picture Oscar Contains spoilers: Emma Stone’s hard-faced corporate CEO has a lot of explaining to do when she is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons’s conspiracy kook. But in this film, asking whether someone is an alien seems an ordinary inquiry The Guardian - UK · Mar 5
The 15 best films of 2025, from Mickey 17 to One Battle After Another THE COUNTDOWN: This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025
Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Bugonia' - Yórgos Lánthimos' bleak and timely alien satire An absurd, bleakly funny and freakishly timely tale that will delight Lánthimos fans and make you look at CEOs in a very different light. Warning: Flat-Earthers may feel vindicated. Euronews · Nov 7, 2025
Bugonia review – A bald Emma Stone dazzles in Yorgos Lanthimos’s timely, heartbreaking comic satire 5/5 The director and star of ‘Poor Things’ and ‘The Favourite’ reunite for this funny and deeply topical film about conspiracy theorists and a kidnapped CEO who may or may not be an alien The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2025
Bugonia director Yorgos Lanthimos wanted Emma Stone to keep her buzz cut Emma Stone declined to keep her buzz cut, which she had done for Bugonia, after the comedy-sci-fi movie's director, Yorgos Lanthimos, tried to convince her to keep it. BANG Premier · Oct 30, 2025
Bugonia Is As Weird As I Hoped, But I Didn't Expect To Find The Main Characters So Interesting I love and hate them. Cinemablend · Oct 18, 2025
Bugonia review: Emma Stone is mesmerising in this bleak alien conspiracy 3/5 Screened at the BFI London Film Festival, the film sees Stone re-unite with Yorgos Lanthimos for a black comedy that’s low on laughs until a blood-spattered final act Evening Standard · Oct 13, 2025
The Weirdest New Sci-Fi Movie Of The Year Is Hiding Its Big Twist In Plain Sight A conspiracy is afoot -- maybe -- in Yorgos Lanthimos' latest thriller. Inverse · Oct 7, 2025
‘Bugonia’ review: A shocking tale of conspiracy theory, power, and those left behind Somehow, Emma Stone makes a 1990s grandma dress look cute. The Mary Sue · Sep 25, 2025
'Bugonia' Review: The Wildest Sci-Fi Remake Of The Year Is A Completely Unpredictable Genre Mish-Mash Emma Stone may or may not be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’ taut black comedy. Read our review out of the Venice Film Festival. Inverse · Aug 28, 2025