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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: I found less to like than things to hate in Poor Things. I did not hate it, but I could not embrace it.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Poor Things is thematically enchanting in the strange way only Yorgos Lanthimos can accomplish by questioning our philosophy. Emma Stone gives one of her best performances in a comic fantasy that lives up to the hype, despite not being as widely accessible as The Favoruite.
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a darkly hilarious, sexually provocative, visually Gilliamesque tale of a liberal, feminist awakening in the Victorian era.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Candice Frederick @ HuffPost
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ film has all the makings to be one of the year’s best pictures with many award’s nominations in its future.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The visual splendor is a delight, but the narrative is — ahem — a grind.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Victoria Luxford @ City AM
- Excerpt: A strange but brilliant fairy tale, Poor Things is a film that will provoke strong reactions. A definite contender for the big awards of Oscar season, this quirky classic won’t be for everyone. Then again, the best films usually aren’t.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: I don’t think the final result is as smart as it thinks it is or that what it’s saying is profound, let alone unique, but POOR THINGS is an entertaining ride that proves how not all experiments work perfectly. But we shouldn’t discount the attempt in case the next one does.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: With Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos continues to prove that he is Hollyweird’s maddest scientist and its most refreshingly singular voice. Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo offer a trifecta of the best performances of the year in this deeply funny, wickedly smart, and entirely brilliant reimagining of Frankenstein as a feminist declaration and character study. Yes, it’s alive, but it’s also pretty much perfect.
- [New] | Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: A bizarre reanimation of ‘Frankenstein’ played as a sexually-charged, surreal social satire, ‘Poor Things’ is packed with mad science and madder art.
- Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Based on a 1992 novel by surrealist Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, Lanthimos infuses his wacked-out aesthetic into this modern, gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by way of Hal Ashby’s Being There. Sitting through Poor Things is an incendiary, hypnotic experience. The film’s subject matter is about nothing less than the human compulsion for self-improvement.
- James Wegg @ JWR
- Excerpt: Frankenstein’s daughter
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