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Pop Culture Happy Hour
Review
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point
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Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures hide caption
Emma Stone in Kinds of Kindness.
Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight PicturesKinds of Kindness is a weird, dark, and bleak film. It's directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) and it re-teams him with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, along with Jesse Plemons. Each actor plays different characters in three different stories — which all involve someone going to extreme measures to regain something they've lost.