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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½

  Mark Ruffalo's Hugh Grant in Paddington 2.

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★★½ 21

  POOR THINGS is the most technically dazzling film Yorgos Lanthimos has constructed. A sexually liberating, pro-feminist, imaginative tale of reawakening & discovery featuring the best performance of Emma Stone’s career. Mark Ruffalo has never been funnier. The production and costume design is exemplary while Tony McNamara’s screenplay contains so much foul-mouthed and ingenious wordplay I want to watch it again just to catch all the lines I missed from laughing. A sensational triumph all around. More sex in movies please!!

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  Review by beren 13

  i think i'm gonna lose my mind if they don't release this in my country immediately

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  Review by Lara ★★★★½ 4

  barbie (2023) but for mentally ill people

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★½

  It’s really remarkable what Emma Stone does and is in this, I really can’t stress that enough, but I can’t say everything else kept pace for me — and fine! Fascinating all the same but The Favourite stays exactly that for me.

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  Review by Brian Formo ★★★★½ 1

  A Picaresque joy; wherein a strong (Freudian) sex drive eventually gives way to personal agency and body and mind autonomy. Forget Barbie and Ken, Emma Stone gives the doll-come-to-life performance of the year and Mark Ruffalo does all the Kenisms with obscenity. Truly two great and fully committed comedic performances in a movie that lives very much in Terry Gilliam's skin but (unlike his films) never runs off the rails. The absurdist colors and costumes dress up a Pinocchio and Orlando orgasm. Audacious, beautiful, and hilarious.

  I've loved a handful of Lanthimos movies and also felt distantly chilly on others but Poor Things is deceptively sweet and life-affirming. Stone is a marvel throughout but I cannot stress enough how much…

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  Review by detectivezinc ★★★★★ 3

  Poor Things is groundbreaking like Newton and Einstein discovered physics law. Encompassing nearly every aspect of the human desire, Bella's exploration of sexuality and humanity exposes our most primal instincts. It manages to be both funny and quirky while maintaining profound depth. I would dare to call it the best film in cinematic history. Imma go cry now. It’s great to be alive to witness Poor Things.

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  Review by sara ★★★★½

  barbie if weird barbie was the lead

  ETA: a stylistically playful, wickedly funny take on self actualization and becoming your own woman! phenomenal cast and costumes to die for.

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  Review by pipebomb ★★★★½ 4

  i can't decide if this film looks like being high in a birthday card store or the surreal childlike terror of being lost in a really fancy department store when you were like four and everything looks weird and expensive. regardless, it looks like a $1000 perfume turned into a feature length film.

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  Review by Evan Patrick Adams ★★★★½ 1

  The more I think about it, the more I like “Poor Things”. Lanthimos’s knack for dry and surreal style in dialogue and performance bleed into a vast and luscious visual world here. This is a showcase of design and world building. In other films, Lanthimos is surreal situationally, yet still grounded in a someone comparable reality. Here everything is elevated with fun thought-provoking eye candy.

  Referentially, this is a clear rebranding and reimagining of “Frankenstein” with an even more feminine lens than Shelly’s. On top of that, there’s mythical Biblical undertones that feel akin to Adam and Eve without Adam. It’s just Eve and God here. God being Defoe - one of the greatest living character actors alive today -…

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  Review by Erik 🎼 ★★★★★ 3

  “I’m never happier than when I’m in here.”

  In filmmaking terms? Yorgos’s masterpiece, what he’s been building to his whole career. In performance terms? Emma Stone’s raging bull/there will be blood/Fargo/monster/etc. In my terms? The movie of the fucking year.

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  Review by iana ★★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  literally jumped for joy