Emma Stone’s New Movie Debuts To Her Second-Highest Rotten Tomatoes Score Ever

Summary Kinds of Kindness, Emma Stone's latest collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos, has earned the actress another stellar Rotten Tomatoes score.

Stone's transition into behind-the-scenes production and her penchant for darkly humorous storytelling amplify anticipation for Kinds of Kindness.

Emma Stone's new movie Kinds of Kindness, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, has earned the Academy Award winner the second-best Rotten Tomatoes score of her career. Stone rose to fame in the role of Jules in Superbad, and since then, the Arizona-born actress has become one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. Kinds of Kindness, an absurdist black comedy anthology film, presented in three segments, marks the third collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone, following The Favorite and the Oscar-winning movie Poor Things, which earned Stone her second Academy Award.

The movie, which features an ensemble cast including Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, and Hong Chau, received critical acclaim after its Cannes debut. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film is certified Fresh with a critics score of 92% (at time of writing), making it the second-highest-rated movie of Stone's career on the site. The movie's rating ranks only below The Favourite, which has a critics score of 93%, and its score marks a run of eight consecutive Fresh rated movies for Stone, dating back to 2015's La La Land. Check out the ratings of these eight movies below:

Emma Stone Movies Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score La La Land (2016) 91% 81% Battle of the Sexes (2017) 84% 71% The Favourite (2018) 93% 70% Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) 68% 88% The Croods: A New Age (2020) 77% 94% Cruella (2021) 75% 97% Poor Things (2023) 92% 79% Kinds of Kindness (2024) 92% N/A

Will Kinds of Kindness Bring Emma Stone Further Critical Acclaim?

Stone & Lanthimos Are Already Set To Collaborate Again

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Stone is one of the most interesting actresses currently working in Hollywood, and the Easy A star has carved out a niche in complicated, layered, and darkly humorous storytelling in recent years, which looks set to continue with Kinds of Kindness. Stone's off-beat hits are not just limited to her work in front of the camera — her transition into producing has led to other quirky projects as well, such as the exciting A24 movies I Saw the TV Glow and Problemista. Stone will also reportedly star in Bugonia, a new movie from Lanthimos that will also feature her Kinds of Kindness co-star Jesse Plemons.

Kind of Kindness utilizes black and white scenes and seems to be as experimental as viewers have come to expect from Lanthimos. While anthology movies tend not to perform well at the box office, the movie's expansive and star-studded cast could propel it to success before Kinds of Kindness finds success on streaming, where it could well be better suited to viewers given its format.

Kinds of Kindness premiered at Cannes on May 17, 2024.

The movie is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 21 by Searchlight Pictures, and in the United Kingdom on June 28. Even though the movie is an anthology film, which is new ground for Stone as a performer, there is plenty of scope for her and Lanthimos to be able to craft the compelling and quirky characters and narratives that have served them so well to date, and Kinds of Kindness is another great example of this.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes