Poor Things is also one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year ... like how the hybrid animals [the creatures Willem Dafoe’s character creates at the beginning of the movie ...

Poor Things' 11 Oscar nominations (and four wins) are an indication of its critical charm, which is impressive for a movie that is so ... together from different animals run around the house.

making the Poor Things movie a loose sequel to Shelley’s gothic novel. However, rather than an actual continuation, its pseudo-sequel status is a framework to understand the movie as well as the ...

This Hobbesian pronouncement arrives deep into Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things ... Human and animal fates tend to be disturbingly bound together in Lanthimos’ movies, the titles of ...

So, there were a lot of references to caged animals. All the paintings ... and visual detail on screen when Poor Things hits theaters on Dec. 8. Want more movie news? Sign up for Entertainment ...

from Bella’s gothic-chic wardrobe to God’s Moreauvian menagerie of animal experiments gone awry. Because McNamara wrote the script, “Poor Things” brims with his signature polished ...

“Poor Things,” Yorgos Lanthimos’s visually sumptuous and gleefully clever new movie, is so very pleased ... a maid and a menagerie of his repulsive animal experiments, he lives in an ...

In Lanthimos’ world, transgressive sex scenes — plus sadistic power games, anachronistic dance numbers and senseless acts of animal ... “Poor Things” feels as exuberant as it does, why a ...

What follows is the most hilarious scene in the movie.) Bella enthusiastically ... At the beginning of Poor Things, Bella appears an aberration, much like the strange animal hybrids that also roam ...