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Releasing on Dec 8, 2023
  • 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...

Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos

Written By: Tony McNamara, Alasdair Gray

  • 2023
  • R
  • Searchlight Pictures
  • 2 h 21 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Searchlight Pictures
  • 2 h 21 m
Poor Things
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 24 Critic Reviews
94
User Score Available after Dec 8, 2023

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...

Directed By: Yorgos Lanthimos

Written By: Tony McNamara, Alasdair Gray

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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100
Sep 4, 2023
This is Barbie on absinthe.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 1, 2023
Stuffed with rude delights, spry wit, radical fantasy and breathtaking design elements, the movie is a feast. And Emma Stone gorges on it in a fearless performance that traces an expansive arc most actors could only dream about.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
100
Sep 1, 2023
Everything in it – every frame, every image, every joke, every performance – gets a gasp of excitement.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
91
Sep 3, 2023
For all its hilarity, explicit sex — which, for the record, is a) extremely sexy, b) earned, and c) hysterically funny — and foul-mouthed dialogue, Poor Things is a romance about a woman learning to fall in love with herself, no matter what others think she should be.
By Maureen Lee Lenker FULL REVIEW
90
Sep 1, 2023
Poor Things might have benefited from some trimming—it takes a little too long to get cooking—but it’s Lanthimos’ finest movie so far, a strange, gorgeous-looking picture that extends generosity both to its characters and the audience. And Stone—so dazzling in The Favourite—provides its thrumming pulse.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 3, 2023
Poor Things is sex-comedy Frankenstein by way of Jules Verne, and one of the most imaginative comedies in years.
By Siddhant Adlakha FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 1, 2023
At its best, the film is indeed piercingly clever, proud of its peculiarity to a degree just shy of smugness. Though, the 140-minute film does begin to wear out its welcome in the last third, when the jokes have mostly all been made before and the only fresh additions are cumbersome matters of plot.
By Richard Lawson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Element Pictures, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, TSG Entertainment
Release Date Dec 8, 2023
Duration 2 h 21 m
Rating R
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Website https://www.searchlightpictures.jp/movies/poorthings
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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