Kinds of Kindness (2024)

This three-part anthology with the same actors playing unrelated parts left me saying "Ridiculous" and Jack saying "Hard to like." A one line description might include the words control, suspicion, cult, sex, violence, and other abuse. The stars include Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, and Margaret Qualley.

Some were eager to see it because of the previous collaboration of Stone, Dafoe, and director/co-writer Yorgos Lanthimos in Poor Things, which won Oscars for Stone and the makeup and hair team and nominations for directing, music, and best picture.

Efthimis Filippou co-wrote the script with Lanthimos. Each chapter has the letters R.M.F. in its title, and imdb lists Yorgos Stefanakos, a Greek notary public, as playing the role of R.M.F. I did jot down while watching and groaning that I thought the middle chapter was the worst.

Trippy music by Jerskin Fendrix can be streamed on Apple Music and likely elsewhere. Imdb also has some interesting trivia. 

Stone, Dafoe, Lanthimos, and Fendrix were last blogged for Poor Things, Plemons for Killers of the Flower Moon, Chau for Showing Up, Qualley for Drive-Away Dolls, and Filippou was Oscar-nominated for The Lobster.

Rotten Tomatoes critics, averaging 71%, are much kinder than its audiences at 48. We groaned at it on Hulu on November 4.