‘Poor Things’ review: Emma Stone is a sex-crazed science experiment
nypost.comEmma Stone was a sex comedy MVP.The “La La Land” actress got her start in raunch-fests such as 2008’s “The House Bunny,” in which she played the leader of a sorority that invited a retired Playboy Playmate to be its house mother, and she took on the part of a teen outcast who faked hooking up with nerds for a quick buck in “Easy A” in 2010.Running time: 141 minutes.
Rated R (strong and pervasive sexual content, graphic nudity, disturbing material, gore, and language). In theaters.Thirteen years later, Stone has returned to the genre in the most messed-up way imaginable with “Poor Things,” the insatiably weird new film from Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos.
The actress plays a Frankenstein’s monster who goes on a European adventure and, naturally, becomes an oddly inspiring nymphomaniac along the way.Quite the elevator pitch.This “Thing,” suffice it to say, will not be as easy to swallow for mainstream audiences as Stone’s past romps.
The same is true of Lanthimos, whose “The Favourite,” which Stone co-starred in with Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz, was a Best Picture Oscar nominee in 2019. “Poor Things” is a far wilder ride.Yet it’s one whose warped imagery — merging grand Gothic romance with “The Nightmare Before Christmas” — lingers nightmare-like in your mind long after the credits roll.
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