Bugonia

Since they first worked together on 2018’s The Favourite, Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos have become frequent collaborators, making three more films almost back-to-back.

In Bugonia, which follows their collaborations Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness, Stone plays a high-powered CEO named Michelle Fuller, who runs a pharmaceutical company named Auxolith.

One day, Michelle is kidnapped by conspiracy theorist Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) and held captive in their basement because they are convinced that she’s actually an alien sent to Earth to destroy it.

Based on the 2003 South Korean movie Save the Green Planet!, Bugonia is another offbeat, weird and wacky offering from Lanthimos.

It’s more accessible and conventional than some of his more unusual films like Dogtooth and Kinds of Kindness, but it’s still more eccentric than your...