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‘Kinds of Kindness’ review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons plunge into an empty satirical pool

From left, Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe in "Kinds of Kindness."

Reconnecting with his roots as part of the so-called Greek Weird Wave, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest is the three-part anthology film “Kinds of Kindness” — a stumbling victory lap following the Oscar winning success of his more selectively edgy “The Favourite” and “Poor Things.”

It’s a luxe treatment of some puny satiric ideas, toned up by a cast led by Emma Stone and Lanthimos first-timer Jesse Plemons, who won the

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