Kinds Of Kindness Trailer: Final Look At Emma Stone’s New Movie After Premiere Nets 81% RT Score

Summary The final trailer is released for Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness.

The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos takes a different visual direction, set in the present day with plenty of oddities.

Early positive reception and awards buzz suggest that Kinds of Kindness is on track to be a hit with audiences.

The final trailer has been revealed for Kinds of Kindness. Kinds of Kindness is the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos, directly following up his acclaimed 2023 film Poor Things. The film is a triptych story that pieces together the narratives of three very different groups of characters in intertwined storylines. Kinds of Kindness features a leading cast including Emma Stone, Jesse Plemmons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.

Kinds of Kindness is set for release on June 21, 2024.

Now, Searchlight has released the final trailer for Kinds of Kindness. The trailer begins with Stone’s character driving down a road in a sports’ car saying “this is it.” The scene then transitions to a hospital, where a mysterious procedure appears to be taking place. In another storyline, Dafoe and Chau’s characters interact.

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Other moments involve a black-and-white dinner table sequence, and a stilted relationship between Plemmons and Stone. After a series of rapid-fire shots, the final confounding element of the trailer involves a black-and-white sequence of dogs driving.

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As in the case of the previous Kinds of Kindness trailer, this clip gives audiences both a lot and a little at the same time. In under two minutes, the trailer inundates audiences with intriguing images and characters, from strange medical facilities to Chau licking a human torso, from start to finish. At the same time, very little is revealed by way of a coherent plot for Kinds of Kindness. This is likely by design, as Lanthimos may be hesitant to reveal the wacky world to be explored in his experimental film.

Though similarly off-the-wall, Kinds of Kindness already looks starkly different from Lanthimos’ last two feature films, Poor Things and The Favourite. Those films, even if Poor Things include fantastical elements, were both period pieces while Kinds of Kindness appears to be set in the present day. This setting gives a far different visual feel to the 2024 Lanthimos film, stepping outside of the more stylized space in which he had been operating. Lanthimos’ previous present day film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, still included numerous oddities, so Kinds of Kindness likely will as well.

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Though it has not yet been released widely, the reception of Kinds of Kindness is so far positive. At the time of writing, Kinds of Kindness holds an 81% on Rotten Tomatoes among 47 critics. It also won an award at Cannes for best actor for Plemmons, though it lost the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s Anora. Both this early response and the Kinds of Kindness trailer, the Lanthimos film is on a good track.

Source: Searchlight