Yorgos Lanthimos’s films are always strange, and this is perhaps the most peculiar but also the most relatable of them all.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 11, 2024

The story and Bella herself are at times, too hard to swallow and the choices made to depict a woman’s liberation feels too one note and are rather basic ideas

| Nov 13, 2024

Destined to go down as one of 2023’s best and most memorable films, Poor Things is Yorgos Lanthimos at the height of his peculiar power.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 19, 2024

Poor Things is a wildly entertaining quest for liberation and a true cinematic tour de force that wears its technicolor heart on its sleeve.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 17, 2024

It's easy to question the legitimacy of Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things in the first few minutes. Is it the story of a mad disfigured scientist holding a young woman hostage under the guise of science and fatherhood?

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jul 8, 2024

Poor Things is not Lanthimos's best film. I believe The Killing of a Sacred Deer still holds that title, but this is the most fun Lanthimos' work on screen

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 3, 2024

a deliriously droll cinematic whirligig that lands somewhere between Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the plastic ennui of And the Ship Sails On…but with eye-stabbing and mad science and ball gags.

| Jul 3, 2024

Lanthimos and McNamara throw in a hell of a lot in Poor Things. Thankfully, it’s a horny, gorgeous hell of a lot.

| Jun 11, 2024

Trust Lanthimos to make a film where the cast prepped by going to mortician school. Yet for all the delightful derangement, there's a refreshing lack of resignation...

| Original Score: A- | Jun 10, 2024

Poor Things is a very funny film, with acute social satire and an anti-romantic comedy premise rendered in gonzo, Gilliam-esque fashion. It’s also deeply cynical, though it justifies its own cynicism in its commitment to the bit.

| May 29, 2024

Emma Stone is fearless as a creature searching for her humanity in this twisted retelling.

| May 21, 2024

I can honestly say that I appreciated Poor Things. I am less sure I can claim to have entirely enjoyed it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 30, 2024

Stone is fabulous as a woman (re)discovering her zest for life, and Mark Ruffalo is a great, wickedly charming villain.

| Apr 19, 2024

If I had the choice of watching a final movie before giving up the ghost, it would have to be Poor Things. It ranks among my all-time personal favourites and is one of the wittiest and funniest films to hit cinema screens in years.

| Apr 18, 2024

There are not a lot of times where both actor and audience are having fun with a performance. Emma Stone was having the time of her life with Bella Baxter.

| Apr 17, 2024

“Poor Things” is Lanthimos’ most optimistic film because the narrative arcs towards a utopian paradise cobbled together from society’s margins, the titular reference, except it would be a mistake to pity any of the characters

| Apr 12, 2024

A statement about the illusion of bodily autonomy.

| Apr 11, 2024

Life is strange and then there’s Poor Things. Set in a steampunk world of Victorian custom, Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) learns to experience life in her own way even if it grates against societal norms.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2024

A film that needs to be seen to be believed and then experienced.

| Mar 19, 2024

Poor Things is proof that there is room for weirdly wonderful cinema in this world.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 19, 2024