Bugonia

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Bugonia

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2025

1h 58m

Comedy

Sci-Fi

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Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

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Critics Consensus

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are at the top of their game in Bugonia, a bonkers entertainment that applies director Yorgos Lanthimos' whip-smart method to modern society's madness.

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Audience Says

Wildly audacious, Bugonia may be the bleakest film yet in Yorgos’ filmography, sure to satiate fans of peculiar, deranged, and pessimistic satire.

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Ty Burr

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Dec 15

3/4

This is not everyone’s cup of tea, obviously, but it’s pitched expertly on a fulcrum of absurdity and caustic honesty about the fix we’re in while poking the sore spots of various modern social ills.

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Adam Kempenaar

Filmspotting

Nov 14

2.5/5

That point may be that human beings are intolerable, insignificant, and unnecessary. I guess I prefer my misanthropy more clever and less insincere.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

Nov 10

This takes me back to [Yorgos Lanthimos'] Dogtooth in the bold weirdness of it and the challenge of "Are you going to go with us on this trip or not?"

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Clint Worthington

Mediaversity Reviews

6d

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Bugonia’s treatment of Don, the autistic character, recalls more than a tidge of Lenny from Of Mice and Men.

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Michelle Kisner

The Movie Sleuth

Mar 6

Like any Lanthimos film, everything drips with sardonic humor.

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Sharai Bohannon

A Nightmare On Fierce Street Podcast

Mar 6

2.5/5

Great performances and cool aesthetic. Weird message and even more unwanted time in this rut that Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone have fallen into.

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Lex

4d

Keeps you guessing and changing teams throughout.

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Joanne Kiefer

5d

Absolutely horrendous audience… could not watch it. It was absolutely way too offensive towards Starseeds, human safety, a female, & anything about money. I feel like it was completely too scary… when I’ve personally loved movies like “Smile 2” & “The Substance.” I’ve personally been through a similar trauma that was depicted in this movie. I’ve been in shock for an hour and a half now after only watching 30 minutes. I think it’s a very bad ritual of a movie. I watched the entire film at home in the evening & wouldn’t change a word or anything about what I wrote. The “SHOCK” is something that EVIL for sure. Totally worthless trash!

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geoffrey w

5d

Not the best Lathimos but not the worst either.

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Westley loves movies

Mar 7

Top 3 movie of the year.

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Christian

Mar 1

Mocking at its finest. Limited hangout. Veiled disclosure. Predictive programming.

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Stephen B

Mar 1

They Live meets Misery in the bleakest black comic commentary on our current times that one could conjure. High weirdness, accessible only by the dangerously grounded performances of two top-tier superstar film actors at the tops of their respective games, with judicious assistance from some incredibly adept and able supporting actors, all of whom embody their roles with just the right amount of pathos, bathos and hair-trigger tragicomedy. Its unlike anything youve ever seen UNLESS youve seen the South Korean original, Save the Green Planet, an equal work of devastating science friction genius.

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Synopsis

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Producer: Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko
Screenwriter: Will Tracy
Distributor: Focus Features
Production Co: Focus Features , Element Pictures, Square Peg, Fruit Tree, CJ ENM
Rating: R (Bloody Violent Content|Suicide|Grisly Images|Language)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 31, 2025, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.7M
Runtime: 1h 58m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos

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