With the new year only a few weeks old, "the first must-see film of 2024" has arrived, said Matthew Bond in The Mail on Sunday. "You may come out of 'Poor Things' thinking it's just way too weird, that it's a tad too long, but my goodness you'll want to have seen it."
Set in an "art-deco-meets-steampunk London", and directed by the Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos ("The Favourite"), it stars Emma Stone as Bella, a young woman who tries to take her own life while she is pregnant. A celebrated surgeon, Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), then revives her by transplanting her baby's brain into her head, leaving her with the body of a woman but a toddler's mentality.
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