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Yorgos Lanthimos's best films ranked, as his newest movie, Kinds of Kindness, heads to Cannes

Source: Atsushi Nishijima

It came as no great surprise that Poor Things, Oscar-nominated Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2023 film, won the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, won best musical or comedy at the Golden Globes, and was nominated for 11 Oscars, winning four.

The black comedy, a twist on the Frankenstein story, was described by critics as "pleasure to the eye, pleasure to the soul", "luscious", "toweringly bizarre", and "unlike anything you’ve seen in years".

Now, just over a month since the Oscars wrapped up, Lanthimos is gearing up to

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