Collider critic Luca Mehta recommends Yorgos Lanthimos's 2026 film Bugonia as a weekend watch, calling it one of the director's sharpest satires and a fitting close to a prolific three-year run following Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024). The film uses a paranoid, conspiracy-theorist storyline to satirise how societies avoid accountability by scapegoating marginalised groups, a theme the writer links to contemporary populist politics.

Bugonia stars Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis as cousins who kidnap a pharmaceutical CEO, played by Emma Stone, believing her to be an alien "Andromedan." It is adapted by Will Tracy from Jang Joon-hwan's 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet!, with Lanthimos taking directing duties due to Jang's health concerns. Shot largely on VistaVision 35mm and blending minimalist and maximalist visual styles, the film earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, though it won none; Stone received her fifth acting nomination for the role.