Review by Paul Salfen
This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters now is Kinds of Kindness, the quick follow-up to last year’s Poor Things, which won Emma Stone an Oscar and cemented Yorgos Lantimos as a totally unique and reliable filmmaker possibly ready for the masses – well, maybe until now. This three hour long odd and awkward for the sake of being odd and awkward experiment might be a critics darling but audiences are unlikely to get this one, especially if they’re expecting another Oscar-worthy film. This one is beyond tedious and way too long with intentionally wooden and unnaturally-delivered dialogue and frustratingly, doesn’t seem to go anywhere. Yes, it has a stellar cast with Stone, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, Margarey Qually, and a few others all playing different mostly unlikable characters in each fairly unrelated segment but it just causes a bit of confusion as to what was going on here. Yes, you can understand but the journey is not worth the destination. Maybe it was fun for the actors to showcase their obvious talents but it’s not what you would call an enjoyable watch, which makes it hard to recommend to most anyone unless you’re a devout Lanthimos fan. That’s it for this week. Join me next week and every week for another Movie Minute right here on 97.5 KLAK, AMFM Magazine, and RECRD.
