Bugonia
Of all the abductions, this one is different.
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Wokeness: 0%
Overall Score: 60%
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Bugonia and those forgotten Academy Award winners
I did like Poor Things from Yorgos Lanthimos. Did it deserve an award? No. Nominated films today do not deserve any awards. Zero. Half the time they're forgotten in 10 seconds. Think: Captain Phillips and Barkhad Abdi. Bugonia is heading for an Academy nomination and it's not terrible, not great either.
I had to fast forward most of the second half due to disgust of the main "antagonists". Don and Teddy are far too eccentric and full of nonsense that they need to be skipped, but I do like Emma Stone and she adds a lot to the film. Holy Christ, I forgot she was in Movie 43. That film was awful. I think Yorgos and Stone's collaboration is moving her career in a fun direction.
And we all saw the twist at the end coming.
As for the not-so-subtle Hollywood leftist psychobabble in Bugonia: it's there alright, but I'm taking a pass on calling it out since it kind of fits the narrative. Kind of. Like other reviewers said on this site, just because it's there doesn't immediately woke score the entire film. You'll know it when you see it if you watch Bugonia and it's worth a watch, just not an Academy award which it will for sure receive.
Created: 11-26-2025
Not for everyone
This is a strange sci-fi movie with a very strong central theme, built around a mystery that’s present right from the start. I liked it, it’s not a bad movie, but only about 80%.
To explain where I’m coming from, I’ll leave a link to a video by experts who’ve seen it, and one of them pretty much agrees with me.
⚠Fair warning ⚠ it has light spoilers.
They don’t say exactly what happens, but they do talk about the ending without revealing it:
→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gktEAYwnvh0
Created: 01-22-2026
No agenda. A little dark.
Woke: None. That is, unless you consider the existence of a privileged, female, corporate executive to be woke.
The "twist" was predictable. The acting was top-notch. Most of the characters were unlikable by design. That's good acting. Overall the movie just made me feel gloomy. That was also by design. That's good directing.
I didn't recognize Jesse Plemens at first. When I saw El Camino, I notice that he put on a lot of weight. In this movie, he lost all that and more.
As predictable as the twist was, it was still intense.
Created: 01-22-2026
