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Emma Stone might be an alien in the deliciously weird 'Bugonia' – Review

Would a malevolent extraterrestrial dramatically sing along to Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” and sip from her Stanley on the way home from work?

Absurdity is a hallmark of Yorgos Lanthimos movies (“The Favourite,” “Poor Things”) and “Bugonia” (★★★ out of four; rated R; in select theaters now and nationwide Oct. 31) offers up dark-web weirdness and sci-fi paranoia amid a gonzo comedy/psychological romp. While tonally jumbled and at times violently jarring, the movie delivers strange vibes and extremely strong performances from Jesse Plemons at his oddball finest and Emma Stone, who may or may not be from our planet.

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Greek surrealist director Yorgos Lanthimos makes extremely strange movies. His original stories are weird, like The Lobster, in which singletons need to find love, or risk being turned into animals. When he adapts someone else’s work, he tends to draw from source material that’s pretty odd, too — odder, perhaps, than his adaptation of it. That was the case with 2023’s Poor Things, an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s gloriously perverse novel, a feminist, sex-positive take on Frankenstein. Lanthimos’ version is good, but to some extent, his particular flavor of weirdness and Gray’s cancel each other out.

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