It’s interesting knowing a movie will be your favorite of the year long before you ever get to watch it. 

Poor things is a stunning story about discovery, SO MUCH discovery. Its a movie that can juggle a billion aspects of life. Moving on from one to the next so seamlessly akin to how we do in our everyday lives.

There’s so much humanity found in a movie about a sown-together cadaver reanimated. What drives us, what makes us curious, what makes us feel good and why.

Bella Baxter has an arc many directors and storytellers spend their entire careers trying to capture. She learns, she matures, and she’s void of all societal ailments that make us second guess ourselves daily. 

It’s hilarious that every time I think I have a favorite Emma Stone performance (previously the favourite was my favorite lol) she just outdoes herself in the next project. She’s a chameleon, becoming not just Bella Baxter but Bella Baxter at every stage of her life up to adulthood. 

Waltzing through a technicolor world that is so alien to ours visually. We’re brought into a past or future or parallel world with zero explanation about how it all works and yet it’s all so familiar. The skies are paintings constantly morphing into different amalgamations of chemical and cotton. The settings are so huge and grand yet the movie makes sure that we are not taken away from the characters who inhabit it at any moment. It’s always a reflection of the person. 

Yorgos proves that he’s an absolute legend of the craft because this man DOES NOT MISS