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Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos (15, 121 mins)
A disquieting thriller from the maker of the equally idiosyncratic The Lobster that lingers long in the memory with its willful strangeness. Colin Farrell plays a surgeon with an apparently perfect family, trophy wife Nicole Kidman and two happy children, Sunny Suljic and Raffey Cassidy. However, he fosters another strange relationship with Barry Keoghan’s teenager, with whom he shares an elusive bond. When Keoghan starts threatening his family, demanding a forfeit from him or his family will suffer, events take an even darker turn. This is a slow burn nightmarish tale with a claustrophobic atmosphere. The robotic line-readings and the building surrealist disquiet are hallmarks of director Lanthimos, who creates a skewed world and immerses the audience in it with no apology or explanation. More successful than The Lobster and with a winning cameo from Alicia Silverstone, this is an absurdist horror/thriller with engaging pretension.
Out November 3