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The two actors give career-best performances in Yorgos Lanthimos' weird and wonderful new film.
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest feature is gloriously, dementedly alive!
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in ‘Poor Things’.Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures
Only this time it’s a woman who’s coming of age.
Bella is a voracious creature, her continual evolution never dulling her lack of propriety andjoie de vivre.
Both Bella and Stone pursue a fearless act of self-creation here.
Willem Dafoe in ‘Poor Things’.Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures
Particularly because Stone savors every delectable bite, making Bella a woman entirely ruled by her id.
If Bella is all id, then Duncan is pure ego.
Ruffalo seems to be having the time of his life, chewing the scenery with a manic glee.
Emma Stone in ‘Poor Things’.Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures
Ruffalo adopts a European accent that feels less specific to any one region than exceptional in its deliberate pretentiousness.
In his mouth, the c-word becomes a concerto, and it’s a wonder to behold.
Poor Thingsbursts with an absurd perversity that is riotously fun to watch.
Emma Stone in ‘Poor Things’.Searchlight Pictures
But only because such provocation is not merely for the sake of itself.
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