Riding high on the success of their previous collaboration, Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone return with Kinds of Kindness. Any Lanthimos aficionados concerned that their director was starting to look a little mainstream, fear not, for his trademark inventiveness and the surrealism are here in spades, as are acting techniques that recall the staccato register of The Lobster. Rather than following one narrative, Lanthimos has created three separate tales, in which the film’s principal actors – Stone, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau and Willem Dafoe – each take on three different roles. Lanthimos and screenwriter Efthimis Filippou have filled the screenplay with their trademark dark humour and there are some laugh-out-loud moments. Plemons and Stone carry the film with aplomb, and what a joy it is to see the former in a starring role. The pair are well supported by the rest of the cast, Dafoe in particular. As well as being beautifully acted it looks great, thanks to cinematographer Robbie Ryan, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work on The Favourite and Poor Things.–London Evening Standard 

“Kind Of Kindness does what Lanthimos does best: he gives us pure, visceral, original cinema…”–The Indian Express

“[T}he audacity of the project carries the day, and a cast once again bringing their A-game for a director who knows how to work with ensembles.”–RogerEbert.com

“A profoundly puzzling, dizzyingly disturbing and dark-hearted set of loosely-connected stories which manage to be discordantly amusing and strangely exhilarating — a cinematic salt-rub.”–Screen International