Conspiracy-obsessed survivalist cousins Teddy (Jesse Plemons in a true tour de force) and Donny Gatz (astonishing newcomer Aidan Delbis) are on a mission to save their beloved backyard beehives—and humanity—from Colony Collapse Disorder. Waging a two-man war against allegedly alien-controlled forces of biotech and modernity, the cousins take extreme measures to “clear their psychic cache” before staging what may be cinema’s klutziest—and funniest—raid at the office of Big Pharma CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone, perfectly stone-cold). Their demand: to be beamed up to Fuller’s astral mothership and reason with the extraterrestrials they believe responsible for our earthly mess. Out-of-this-world performances by an Plemons, Stone, and Delbis anchor Yorgos Lanthimos’ (Poor Things, MVFF46; The Favourite, MVFF41) blisteringly funny and frighteningly close-to-the-bone tale that begs the question: Wouldn’t the bees, and the planet, be better off if we all just buzzed off? —K.D. Davis
Yorgos Lanthimos
Yorgos Lanthimos studied directing for film and television at the Stavrakos Film School in his native Athens. Among his films are Dogtooth (2009), the winner of two awards at Cannes and a Best Foreign Language Oscar® nominee; The Lobster (2015), nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar and the winner of three Cannes awards; The Favourite (MVFF41), nominated for 10 Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director; Poor Things (MVFF46), the winner of the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion and nominated for 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director; and Kinds of Kindness (2024).
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