Poor Things (2023): Precious Childhoods

I couldn’t wait to write this article. The newest Yorgos Lanthimos film, Poor Things (2023), starring Emma Stone hit theaters recently and it smashed ratings among critics and audiences. It received an IMDb score of 7.9/10, a Rotten Tomatoes score of 92%, and a Metacritic score of 88%. Emma Stone took home an Academy Award for her leading role as Bella Baxter, the film’s central character who is a reanimated corpse that slowly ages throughout the film. If you haven’t seen any of Yorgos’ films before such as The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), and The Favourite (2018), just know that he is a director with an unorthodox and specific vision.