Bugonia
Had 2025's BUGONIA had a crude Hollywood tagline, it might've read, possibly in all caps, "IS SHE? OR ISN'T SHE?!" Thankfully we were spared such nonsense, but that is what director Yorgos Lanthimos' latest, a science-fiction black comedy, poses. What you'll be wondering until the third act. Teased by Will Tracy's screenplay right up to the relevetory moment. Sorry, invisible audience, I don't say things like "the big reveal". I really hate when people turn verbs into nouns these days. But, I digress... Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone, in her fourth collaboration with the director) is the exacting CEO of pharmeceutical conglomerate Auxolith. She's high powered, tough, yet repeatedly tells employees that they are free to leave at 5:00, to achieve that ever elusive work/life balance. As long as they have their work done and met their deadlines, of course. It's a "new era" after all. Nutjob/conspiracy theorist (is tha...
