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Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian:

Poor Things is a steampunk-retrofuturist Victorian freakout and macabre black-comic horror, adapted by screenwriter Tony McNamara from the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray and directed by the absurdist virtuoso Yorgos Lanthimos.

Guy Lodge, Variety:

To Bella Baxter, a literal child in a woman’s body, everything is new and everything is interesting — words, bodies, maps, music, sugar, sex — and Lanthimos matches her fascination with rampant glee.

David Fear, Rolling Stone:

It’s a showcase for [Emma] Stone, who rapidly goes from preverbal toddling to childlike wonder to restless adolescence… her performance displays the balance and dexterity of a chainsaw juggler.

Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com:

[Mark] Ruffalo, meanwhile, is hysterically funny in a way you’ve never seen him before. He’s both a charismatic Lothario and a preening buffoon.

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire:

Boldly realized with taffy-colored production design, brain-bending sets stuffed with enough easter egg unrealities to fill the most difficult 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, and wildly over-the-top Victorian costumes that look as if made by a schizoid seamstress on too many tabs of acid, Poor Things is also hysterically funny and the raunchiest movie you’re likely to see all year.

Jane Crowther, GamesRadar:

Holly Waddington’s non-conformist costumes are gorgeously weird and surgical.

David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter:

Robbie Ryan’s cinematography captures [everything] with an attention to color and light that’s magical, along with Lanthimos’ customary penchant for the intermittent skewed view of a fish-eye lens.