Jesse Plemons has a plea: Pause Netflix and go see “Bugonia” in the theater.

The film, in which he plays a conspiracy theorist who kidnaps and tortures Emma Stone’s pharma CEO, believing her to be an alien, is the kind that might seem small in scope. On a certain level, it’s three people — the possibly insane mastermind Teddy (Plemons), his cousin and accomplice Don (Aidan Delbis), and their victim Michelle Fuller (Stone) — in a basement. And yet, in the hands of filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and his collaborators, it feels big in scope too, with a booming score, raw performances, grand themes about perceptions of reality and the human experiment, and an ever-escalating tension as you try to figure out whom to believe.

“It’s a very entertaining film and a ride,” Stone said in an interview a

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