Poor Things - Movie Reviews (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.

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

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

Full Review | Mar 19, 2024

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

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

"Poor Things" coincides with Emerld Fennell's "Saltburn" in confronting Hollywood's gun-happy format with something considerably more grounded, namely the sex urge that drives people, and the social curiosity that comes along with it.

Full Review | Original Score: FIVE STARS | Mar 18, 2024

The best film of 2023. A Frankenstein Meets Forrest Gump flick filtered through a feminist focus.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 12, 2024

Discover 'Poor Things': A unique blend of bizarre ideas and imaginative storytelling, delivering an entertaining film with top-notch acting and production.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 11, 2024

A twisted, darkly funny coming-of-age dramedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2024

"Poor Things” is not only an expressive meal for the mind, it’s also one of the most spectacularly beautiful and visually imaginative films I’ve seen.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2024

It’s about time something so wicked was made at such a high level.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2024

Poor Things is a riot. Bella’s sincerity, contrasted with coded misogyny around her, makes up for a gratifying concoction, and this is arguably Lanthimos’ best film till date.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2024

In the effort of building out a believable world just askew of ours, Yorgos loses grip on the character study he’d started and ultimately settles for vibrant mediocrity, in an eye-catching and largely engrossing world.

Full Review | Original Score: 60/100 | Mar 4, 2024

Its fable about post-feminist ascension abandons the provocative side to fall into an inertia of repetitive moments that reduce the figure of Emma Stone to that of a porcelain doll. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 2, 2024

All this lunacy, cruelty and vile portrayals of patriarchal control, and yet Poor Things is ultimately a profoundly hopeful movie.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2024

Set against colorfully artificial production design and a weird premise that’s typical of Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things masters the coming of age vibe.

Full Review | Feb 29, 2024

Lanthimos clearly does not care about realism and uses the fantastical to allow us to just join in on both the wildness and the journey of his characters.

Full Review | Feb 29, 2024

The basic response to any Yorgos Lanthimos film is repulsion. Anyone delighted by Poor Things, his smirky, smutty uglification of The Bride of Frankenstein, falls for his usual depravity.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2024

Stone's masterful performance as Bella takes pleasure in her liber­ation, while recognizing and bris­tling against misogyny, and rises above the increasing, occasional self-congratulatory bizarreness of the movie.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2024

I never thought the day would come when I’d have to give it up for Yorgos Lanthimos.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2024

The film uses all the means available to cinematographic language to subject the female character to the male gaze. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Feb 12, 2024

Yorgos Lanthimos does Frankenstein the way Debbie did Dallas in the adult fable featuring audacious performances by Stone and Ruffalo.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 9, 2024