Emma Stone has been on an extraordinary hot streak as of late, highlighted by her stellar work in Showtime’s The Curse and her Oscar-winning turn in 2023’s Poor Things. That remarkable run continues with Bugonia, her fourth straight big-screen collaboration with Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, in which she stars as a biomedical bigwig who winds up in otherworldly peril.

Once again displaying the go-for-broke instincts and bonkers agility—a mixture of stern glares, duplicitous smiles, and untrustworthy façades—that have made her Hollywood’s most adventurous actress, Stone is a mesmerizing riot in this bleak satire of our current state of disorder—as is her co-star Jesse Plemons, who matches her intensity and manages to outdo her craziness.

A remake of South Korean filmmaker’s Jang Joon-

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