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January 27, 2024
Lanthimos goes all-in and delivers his first full-on masterpiece. Poor Things is a film bustling with creativity, dripping with excess, and referencing so many styles and stories that it's almost impossible to see it as a singular work. And yet it feels polished and complete. It's Frankenstein by the way of The Handmaiden, peppered with Wes Anderson influences and flashes of Perfume. It took Lanthimos a while to develop his signature style in something I could wholeheartedly appreciate, but Poor Things is 100% that film. A very cool surprise.