Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his usual key, embracing both the bizarre and the very dark, with a pinch of black comedy here and there. This film is broken into three (mostly) independent episodes (the connection is the slightest possible, essentially a joke): in the first, a man struggles with a new command from his boss, which he obeyed without question for a decade; in the second, a wife returns from a boating accident to a doubting husband; in the third, a man and a woman belong to a cult and are searching for a particular person. All episodes share most of the same cast, with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons as the protagonists. They are both quite good in their multiple roles, all broken people in one way or another. Willem Dafoe has the widest range of characters to play and does so quite well; Margaret Qualley is nearly as good and has one extra character to play. Composer Jerskin Fendrix’s heavy-sounding, dissonant musical score accentuates the sense that much is not right with these characters. Cinematographer Robbie Ryan’s images and editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis’ work are clean and help to milk the tension of those stories.