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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodA deceptively dense piece of work filled with moments that articulate the complexity of the human condition.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe effect of it all is elegant and overwhelmingly stylish, yet maybe there’s not a superabundance of substance to go with the style. Kinds of Kindness feels heavier and longer than I expected, as if reaching for a meaningful resolution that might not be there. Yet absence and loss is perhaps the whole point.
- 80The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinAs for kindness itself, I can’t say much jumped out on a first viewing, unless it was of the you-have-to-be-cruel-to-be sort. But it’s exactly the sort of film that makes you want to look again.
- 80Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganScreen DailyFionnuala HalliganThe spirit king of the Greek Weird Wave has produced 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.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNew York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriLanthimos’s unwavering, matter-of-fact style embodies the unquestioning nature of his characters. And while the internal logic of his controlled worlds feels ironclad, it never really is. The filmmaker’s precision is a ruse, a magic trick designed to make us think one thing while quietly building a case for its opposite: the reality that none of this makes any sense.
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeLanthimos trades in discomfort, trusting his audience enough to take his brand of provocation as they please.
- 80ColliderChase HutchinsonColliderChase HutchinsonMuch as he’s done in the past, this film dissects the casual cruelty of love and relationships through a combination of the filmmaker’s distinct sense of dark humor that occasionally flirts with something closer to a more strange sociological horror.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichAlways interesting, seldom enjoyable, and somehow both smothered and excessive at the same time (and at all times), this nearly three-hour bonfire of Searchlight Pictures’ annual budget is a towering monument to human love that betrays almost zero interest in actually being liked.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyIt may not be as thematically cohesive on a first watch as some audiences will wish for, but the longer you mull it over the more the pieces of the puzzle begin to fit and the common threads start to emerge.
- 70Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonKinds of Kindness is clever and a bit snide, a curio cabinet not designed for beauty.