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.
You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
- You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
- You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
- You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
- The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
- You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
- You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
- You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
- In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
- You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
- In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
- You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
- In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
- Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
- You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
- Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
- In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
- You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
- You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
- You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
- In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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
