Say Goodbye to 2025’s Strangest Sci-Fi Movie on April 26
Emma Stone is turning into the Meryl Streep of her generation. The two-time Oscar winner is able to generate awards buzz for virtually any movie or show she does, regardless of how palatable to mainstream audiences it is. Look no further than her HBO series with Nathan Fielder, The Curse, or her many collaborations with director Yorgos Lanthimos. Earlier this year, Stone became the first woman to be nominated both as a producer and an actress for two separate films. She also became the youngest woman to receive seven total nominations in her career, beating Streep. Her latest offering was probably the strangest of any Oscar-nominated film that she has done, and she has done several. It continued her collaboration with Lanthimos and combined the filmmaker’s trademark surrealist humor with contemporary commentary.
It was a remake of a 2003 Korean movie, and also featured Jesse Plemons, Stavros Halkias, Aidan Delbis, and Alicia Silverstone. The movie underperformed at the box office, failing to recoup its budget theatrically. However, it has proven to be more popular on the PVOD market, and will likely continue drawing curious crowds in its long life on streaming. The movie received positive reviews from critics, although there is an argument to be made that it plays into the paranoia of the Q-Anon types, with a plot centered around two conspiracy theorists who kidnap a CEO because they think that she is an alien.
Here’s How Long You Have Left To Watch Emma Stone’s Strangest Movie on Peacock
We’re talking, of course, about Bugonia. The film now holds a “Certified Fresh” 87% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus reads, “Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are at the top of their game in Bugonia, a bonkers entertainment that applies director Yorgos Lanthimos’ whip-smart method to modern society’s madness.” The movie grossed $43 million worldwide against a reported budget of $55 million — it wasn’t quite as successful as Stone and Lanthimos’ Poor Things and The Favourite, although it did better than Kinds of Kindness. You can watch Bugonia on Peacock, but you might want to rush, as it’ll leave the platform on April 26. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
- Release Date
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November 7, 2025
- Runtime
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119 minutes
- Director
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Yorgos Lanthimos
- Writers
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Will Tracy
- Producers
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Andrew Lowe, Ari Aster, Ed Guiney, Emma Stone, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kasia Malipan, Will Greenfield
