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Nobody makes films like Yorgos Lanthimos. Even if you can detect influences from legendary filmmakers like Andrey Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick , or John Cassavetes, his movies are so singularly weird and obscure that they stand on their own in contemporary mainstream cinema. His first English-language flick (after making four features on home soil in Greece), "The Lobster," starring an acclaimed roster of actors like Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, and John C. Reilly, is no exception. The dystopian black comedy is a collection of wild yet brilliant ideas that stretch beyond traditional narrative boundaries and end somewhere in the deep psyche.…