(Photo by Atsushi Nishijima /© Searchlight Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection)
We’re ranking the films of director Yorgos Lanthimos by Tomatometer! The list starts with his Certified Fresh movies, which are virtually all of them. His 2009 international breakthrough Dogtooth was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, and his three English-language films of the 2010s (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and The Favourite) was a fresh breath of weird air among the cinematic universes and formula blockbusters.
Lanthimos’ second collaboration with Favourite‘s Emma Stone was 2023’s Poor Things and a global hit. They’re back at it again with the bizarre anthology Kinds of Kindness.
#1
Adjusted Score: 117097%
Critics Consensus: The Favourite sees Yorgos Lanthimos balancing a period setting against rich, timely subtext – and getting roundly stellar performances from his well-chosen stars.
#2
Adjusted Score: 95162%
Critics Consensus: It’ll be too disturbing — and meandering — for some, but Dogtooth is as disturbing and startlingly original as modern filmmaking gets.
#3
Adjusted Score: 113503%
Critics Consensus: Wildly imaginative and exhilaratingly over the top, Poor Things is a bizarre, brilliant tour de force for director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone.
#4
Adjusted Score: 100008%
Critics Consensus: As strange as it is thrillingly ambitious, The Lobster is definitely an acquired taste — but for viewers with the fortitude to crack through Yorgos Lanthimos’ offbeat sensibilities, it should prove a savory cinematic treat.
#5
Adjusted Score: 94397%
Critics Consensus: The Killing of a Sacred Deer continues director Yorgos Lanthimos’ stubbornly idiosyncratic streak — and demonstrates again that his is a talent not to be ignored.
#6
Adjusted Score: 79065%
Critics Consensus: At once playfully eccentric and poignantly bittersweet, Attenberg adds a refreshing sideways spin to the arthouse coming-of-age drama.
#7
Adjusted Score: 76117%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#8
Adjusted Score: 82342%
Critics Consensus: A cold-hearted triptych brimming with caustic wit, Kinds of Kindness is Yorgos Lanthimos at his most misanthropic — and bitingly funny.
#9
Adjusted Score: 4301%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.