Yorgos Lanthimos’ new feature Bugonia is launching at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday night and critics are starting to have their say on the offbeat sci-fi black comedy starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

Bugonia marks a reunion for the director and Stone after the four-time Oscar-winning Poor Things . In their latest collaboration – an English-language remake of South Korean filmmaker Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet! – Stone plays a high-powered CEO of a major company kidnapped by two conspiracists (Plemons, Aidan Delbis) who are convinced the CEO is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

The reactions have been largely positive, with the actors in particular coming in for high praise.

Deadline’s Pete Hammond called the film a “wild ride” and a r

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