After the runaway success and multi-award-winning achievement of Poor Things last year, Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film Kinds of Kindness (info on IDMB) defines the term “much anticipated.” That is particularly the case as it also sees the return of Lanthimos’ new muses, Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe. Lacking the phantasmagorical elements of its predecessor by being set in present-day America, it is equally strange in its utterly surreal scenarios and brutally controlling characters. Being a portmanteau film, a genre that often struggles to hold an audience due to its episodic nature (two walked out of the screening I attended), Lanthimos has a job to ensure that all the characters are engaging despite their sheer toxic awfulness. Using the same actors playing different characters in each segment...