Is Emma Stone’s Film Alienating Critics?
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Emma Stone in “Bugonia.” Focus Features/Atsushi Nishijima Bugonia — Emma Stone’s alien invastion satire from director Yorgos Lanthimos — expands to a wide release in theaters on Friday. What are Rotten Tomatoes critics saying about the film? Bugonia marks Stone’s fourth feature film collaboration with the filmmaker, following The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024). Poor Things earned Stone her second Best Actress Oscar after her previous win in the category for 2016’s La La Land. ForbesWhat Time Is New ‘South Park’ Episode This Week And What Is It About? (Update)By Tim Lammers Rated R, Bugonia was released in select theaters on Oct. 24 and xpands to more than 1,700 venues on Friday. The logline for the film reads, “Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.” Bugonia also stars Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone. As of Wednesday, Bugonia has earned an 88% “fresh” rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 147 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus reads, “Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are at the top of their game in Bugonia, a bonkers entertainment that applies director Yorgos Lanthimos’ whip-smart method to modern society’s madness.” ForbesGuillermo Del Toro On His Lifelong Quest To Create ‘Frankenstein’By Tim Lammers In addition, audiences on RT gave Bugonia an 82% “fresh” score on RT’s Popcornmeter based on 100-plus verified user ratings. The RT audience summary for the film is still pending. What Are Individual Critics Saying About ‘Bugonia’? Amy Nicholson of the Los Angeles Times is among the top critics on RT who gives the film a “fresh” rating, writing, “Bugonia is a hilarious movie with no hope for the future of humanity. What optimism there is lies only in…
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