Movies are an endlessly miraculous medium when it comes to getting us to identity with people we don’t like and don’t approve of, who commit actions that leave us appalled yet, at the same time, in a state of terrified awe. Yorgos Lanthimos , the director of “Poor Things,” “The Favourite,” and “Kinds of Kindness,” has become a squirmy master of this brand of violent-outsider filmmaking; let’s call it enlightened misanthropy. He’s working in the tradition of directors like Stanley Kubrick and the Oliver Stone of “Natural Born Killers,” but Lanthimos operates with his own dark playfulness. His new movie, “ Bugonia ,” is a heady and gripping experience, in no small part because it takes the form of a duel — tactical, philosophical, brutal — between two characters who might almost be locke

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