Kinds of Kindness

The new film by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) is a triptych fable, starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, and Margaret Qualley in multiple roles. The three stories follow a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife -- who was missing at sea and presumed drowned -- has returned and seems like a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.