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REVIEW: "Poor Things"

Genre:  Comedy; Drama; Sci-fi. Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Writer: Tony McNamara Starring: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott and Kathryn Hunter Yorgos Lanthimos has made some of the most weird and brilliant (and unconventional) comedies of the last decade ( The Lobster and The Favourite ), but he reaches his peak as one of the greatest cinematic geniuses with Poor Things - a social comment on the role of women and their objectification and the search for liberation disguised as a comedic journey of an incredible woman connecting with the world. In fact, Poor Things is a lot of things, but it manages to be always entertaining, funny and even tragic sometimes. It's the best 2023 film I've seen! The movie starts by presenting us a woman who we later discover to be named Bella, who was brough back to life by a scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter, who was a product of his father's experiments himself. Bella starts developing as a child trapped