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- 2023
- R
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 21 m
- 2023
- R
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 21 m
Summary Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is 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 th...
Written By: Tony McNamara, Alasdair Gray
- 2023
- R
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 21 m
- 2023
- R
- Searchlight Pictures
- 2 h 21 m
Poor Things
7.1
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Summary Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is 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 th...
Written By: Tony McNamara, Alasdair Gray
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 62 Critic Reviews
88
92% Positive
57 Reviews
57 Reviews
3% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
5% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 62 Critic Reviews
88
92% Positive
57 Reviews
57 Reviews
3% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
5% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
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.
Poor Things never gets dogmatically bogged down — it prefers a swifter, Swiftian attack on bygone mores regarding sex that still don’t feel bygone enough — but whether you dig the manner in which this pilgrim’s progress is presented may be a matter of taste.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 468 User Ratings
7.1
72% Positive
338 Ratings
338 Ratings
9% Mixed
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
19% Negative
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 468 User Ratings
7.1
72% Positive
338 Ratings
338 Ratings
9% Mixed
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
19% Negative
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
A funny, sad, bawdy, beautiful concoction that will haunt and provoke in equal measure.
There hasn’t been such a delightfully strange and thoroughly developed cast of characters in years.
With both physicality and line delivery, Stone evolves this refreshing character with every new experience.
Through it all, Bella claims center stage; and whether she’s acting as an innocent or a sophisticate, Stone has no problem anchoring the chaos.
The verdict is sad but unavoidable. Poor Things is a 141-minute mistake.
Yeah, this movie wasn't made for me or my tastes, that's for sure lol. After I finished watching this movie I immediately fired up Tropic Thunder, and it made me realize there was nothing "fun" about Poor Things, at least to my taste, I was watching the movie like I would a natural disaster on live television, with awe, respect, and abject horror. I would love to get some of whatever drugs the director is on, or maybe I wouldn't actually...
Technically this is a stunning movie, the cinematography is arguably the best I've seen, it was absolutely brilliantly shot, hats off. The strange steampunk dystopian world is also very intriguing, it's bizarre and it's certainly original, it's very tim burton-esque in a way. I didn't personally care for the costume design, I'll die happily if I never see another one of those hideous puffy shouldered dresses again... I think the concepts are a little, eh, gross as well? Like I GET what the writer/director were going for, I think I get what they were trying to say but damn it was gross seeing a woman with the mental age of a 12 year old and the speech pattern of a disabled person "discovering" sex. Felt like I needed to take a shower after the movie switched to color, and I'm not talking about the sex itself, sex is fine, sex is great, sex is grand, sex is beautiful, but it really toed the line with the concepts of infantilizing women, taking advantage of women, and borderline pedophilia despite Emma Stone being 35. Also again, I'm not a prude, but ****' hell that scene in the brothel with that crack-head lookin' dude was CREEPY, did not need that image of that naked dude put in my head.
The acting is amazing, Emma Stone of course was great but I think people aren't giving Mark Ruffalo due praise, he brought that slime ball Wedderberg to life in the worst best way possible. Genuinely one of the slimiest characters I've witnessed on the silver screen. However it is all so INCREDIBLY discordant, thematically, musically, artistically, this movie is like nails on a chalk board. Again I get the intent, but it makes for a hard to watch movie imo. There are just a lot of scenes and images from this movie I would have sooner never put into my brain (cough freaky naked crack head looking dude cough), lemme tell ya.
I would safely say if you start this movie, and can't make it through the first 10-15 minutes you can rest assured it never gets "better" it just keeps clobbering you over the head with discordant themes.
I just... Idk what to do with this movie. I can praise the individual pieces of it but it's not a movie I would EVER watch a second time.
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A wacky, offbeat and impeccably designed showcase of one of the year's most well-thought-out performances, Yorgos Lanthimos's follow-up to "The Favourite" may not be my favorite work of his that I've seen, but it has a bunch of thought-provoking things to say and some striking visuals scattered all throughout its runtime. On the subject of Emma Stone's work here, it's hard to miss how much she put into this. In every mannerism and line, you feel the effort poured into making this character actually feel like they're developing in front of your eyes. Special attention should also be given to the sets, costumes and visual effects, all of which evokes this sort of alternate Victorian era that's intoxicating to take in. As far as the weirdness quotient is concerned, this one may wander off the proverbial rails a little bit too often for my tastes, but it's a continuing sign of this director's growing imprint on the current filmic landscape. There's definitely not too many people out there making things like Yorgos. I'd say we're all the better for it.
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first have of the movie I was waiting for the story to start, and the second half I was wishing it to finish. Boring. soulless characters, there is no way you can feel anything for them. Another movie that receives magnificent critics because the director, same thing that happens with Nolan this days...
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Production Company
Element Pictures,
Film4,
Fruit Tree,
Hungarian Tax Credit,
Searchlight Pictures,
TSG Entertainment
Release Date Dec 8, 2023
Duration 2 h 21 m
Rating R
Tagline She's an experiment.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Wins & 11 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 7 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 2 Wins & 16 Nominations