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Being weird can be interesting, but if being weird is THE MAIN feature a movie has to offer it's viewers then I can not get interested, let alone be mesmirised or captivated by it.Hurrah for the arthouse movie fans, of whom a niche group will love it to pieces, but for the ...
Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) continues to be sublime on all fronts.Poor Thingsis a feast for the eyes. Robbie Ryan's cinematographychanges from black and whiteto vibrant hues as Bella's maturity progresses. Lanthimos uses fish eye and wide angle lenses to capture se...
Poor Thingsis the story of Bella (Stone), a childlike creature and adoptive daughter of a Victorian anatomist cum mad scientist (Willem Dafoe). Despite her very adult body, her mannerisms and understanding of the world are infantile. One of the scientist’s students (Ramy Youssef) comes to ...
the world’s oldest profession, and maybe — finally — herself. The movie does go on a bit: A late chapter with Christopher Abbott as the last misogynistic hurdle in our heroine’s voyage of self-actualization makes a point the movie has already cleanly made over the previous two hours. ...
A strength ofPoor Thingsare its layers. Simplistically, you could watch the film as a light-hearted spoof filled with sex and surprising one-liners. If willing to think more deeply, it can provoke thoughts about gender, control, power, science, fate, and death. What right did the scientist...
Through this lens, Poor Things becomes a coming-of-age story that radiantly reflects a young woman growing to understand herself as a creature of intelligence, sexual desire, and autonomy. While the origin of the film is the birth of horror itself, Lanthimos's Poor Things has a lovely aesthe...
(Side note: can anyone tell me what makes a movie NC-17, if everything inPoor Thingsdoesn’t get you there?) Stone easily expresses Bella’s curiosity and desire to learn more about herself and the world; it’s also delightful to see her navigate this exploration with no hang ups ...
To say the hero of Netflix’s new animated movie “Orion and the Dark” is fearful is an understatement.
As an unabashedly bizarre and racy moviegoing experience, the movie will likely play well among critics, but may struggle to garner broader mass appeal. Still, Lanthimos’s creative and incisive critique of the human condition deserves praise. The film’s emotional and thematic exploration of ...