Review by bardavidi

Since his early days, the cinematic magic of Yorgos Lanthimos always lied in his ability of world building stand alone universes, completely immersing viewers in absurdist and claustrophobic atmospheres. Despite a running time of 2 hours and 43 minutes, Kinds of Kindness is too ambitious to accomplish this, trying to cram three stories of such worlds, denying them the appropriate screen time needed to emotionally land somewhere meaningful. Perhaps this was better suited as a limited series, freeing the need to 'huddle' them together under a forced anthology that only vaguely connects at the seams.