Despite barely clinging on at the domestic Box Office,Kinds of Kindness, the latest mind-bending experience fromYorgos Lanthimos, has officially reached$5 million at the US box office. This comes following a series of recent daily takings each in the thousands, combining to tip the movie over the milestone. Now sitting on over $12 million,Kinds of Kindnessis still shy of its $15 million budget, made even more frustrating when compared to Lanthimos andEmma Stones' latest project,Poor Things. An awards darling,Poor Thingshad a budget of $35 million, considerably more than its successor, but alas, it earned over $117 million globally and became both a commercial and critical hit.
Kinds of Kindness, despite failing to reap the financial sowing of executives, has achieved impressive feats in some areas.The film officially delivered the biggest per-theater average of the year, and currently sits at first in the top 2024 limited release movies at the domestic Box Office. Also, for production company Searchlight, it is now their eleventh biggest US success of all time, sat between two other recent releases inAndrew Haigh’sAll of Us StrangersandTaika Waititi’sNext Goal Wins.
What is ‘Kinds of Kindness’ About?
Lanthimos is known for his avant-garde productions,with this perhaps his most experimental. Split into three related but distinct stories,
à la an anthology film likeNew York Stories,Kinds of Kindnesspresents a dark twisted reality with deeply flawed but brilliantly comic characters. The film features the likes of Stone,Jesse Plemons,Willem Dafoe,Margaret Qualley,Hunter Schafer, and many others, and made its full debut at the recent Cannes Film Festival where it received a positive reception.
One such positive review was fromCollider’s own Chase Hutchinson, who said, “There may come a time when Lanthimos has to figure out what cinematic identity he wants to have, but this latest film shows he’s got multiple speeds at which to operate. The shifting of gears in his career might not always have been seamless, but his kicking it all back up a notch could not be more welcome to see. When he ends it all with one final dark punchline, proving to be one of his cruelest closing shots, it feels like a statement that he isn’t here to be confined by his more mainstream success. While he was far from dead like the corpses in this film,Kinds of Kindnessfeels like Lanthimos is himself coming back to life once more.”
Kinds of Kindnesshas officially surpassed $5 million at the US Box Office. You can still just about grab tickets for the film right now.
Kinds of Kindness
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife’s demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning and a woman’s quest to locate an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.
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