movie review

BUGONIA

Running time: 120 minutes. Rated R (Bloody and violent content, suicide, grisly images, language). In select theaters Oct. 24.

That “Bugonia” is only a tense two hours is a kind of kindness.

Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ previous collaboration with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, the miserable “Kinds of Kindness” in 2024, was a punishing 2:45.

Minutes felt like January days.

Not true of the trio’s new movie, a zany, comic, icky, smelly thriller about the deadly cocktail of loneliness and web browsing.

“Bugonia” buzzes by, if sometimes nauseastingly, and is a huge improvement from Lanthimos’ episodic drivel last year.

Even so, I’m exhausted by the “ Poor Things ” auteur’s schtick of overly peculiar tales, fishbowl lenses, fast struts down chic hallways, aloof cha

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