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This film will polarise viewers, some will walk out

This film will polarise viewers, some will walk out

Emma Stone plays a female Frankenstein’s monster in this tale about an infant in a woman’s body.

John McDonaldFilm reviewer

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Imagine Frankenstein remade as a Scottish sex comedy and you’ll be slightly better prepared for Poor Things. I say “slightly” because Yorgos Lanthimos and his favourite scriptwriter, Tony McNamara, have created another bizarre, indefinable production that juggles extremes of vulgarity and profundity. Pay too much attention to the foul language and bare flesh, and you risk missing the point.

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in “Poor Things”.  

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John McDonaldFilm reviewerJohn McDonald is the film critic for AFR Weekend.

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