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Name: Poor Things
Released: 2023-12-8
Cast: Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo

Poor Things

NR
2023

98%

From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation

Director:

Yorgos Lanthimos

Producer:

Emma Stone, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ed Guiney

Writer:

Tony McNamara

Cast:

Emma Stone, Margaret Qualley, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

98%

Critics Consensus: Wildly imaginative and exhilaratingly over the top, Poor Things is a bizarre, brilliant tour de force for director Yorgos Lanthimos and star Emma Stone.

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Jonny Mahon-Heap

Lanthimos examines human emotion as a sort of mask that we wear, stripping his characters of time and place to observe the raw human animal. Poor Things might be the purest distillation of this yet.

It's a remarkable film, shot in Lanthimos's trademark wacky style, with an uproarious performance from Mark Ruffalo as the bounder who tries to exploit Bella's childlike naivety...

Bella's journey is a powerfully potent, eye-opening look at the world – sharing honest truths about men and sex, while also allowing Bella to discover and walk down her own path of liberation.

Poor Things is a film of immense ambition and craft, and one that mostly does what it set out to do, which is to be a vast and riotous psychodrama, whose eccentricity should not impede its popular appeal.

But rhetorically checkmating keyboard warriors isn’t Poor Things‘ primary agenda, which is issuing a statement against the patriarchy and rape culture (cheers, supportive applause) via Bella’s intellectual and allegorical coming-of-age.

September 8, 2023

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Genre:Sci-Fi
Theatrical Release Date:December 8, 2023

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