"Sheer bedazzlement."
— David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
"Expect an Academy Awards deluge."
— Kevin Maher, Times (UK)
"No other mainstream director today is making movies this visually bold and brilliantly realised."
— Raphael Abraham, Financial Times
"Everything in it – every frame, every image, every joke, every performance – gets a gasp of excitement."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"Like last year's 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' I feel comfortable calling this a lock for Oscar nominations across the board."
— Jordan Hoffman, The Messenger
"It’s Lanthimos’ finest movie so far, a strange, gorgeous-looking picture that extends generosity both to its characters and the audience."
— Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
"It can be hysterically funny and incredibly disturbing, sometimes in the same beat, and it’s the most visually accomplished film that Lanthimos has made."
— Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
"Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos works on a grand scale for the first time in this spectacularly entertaining, visually phenomenal, 'Candid'-like feminist fable."
— Kyle Smith, Wall Street Journal
"Poor Things is a work about distortion, assemblage, and invention, and thus it’s apt that the film deforms and amalgamates to beget something thrillingly unique."
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
"Bella is a cinematic heroine for the ages and Poor Things is a unique piece of artistry. With Yorgos Lanthimos behind the camera, it's not hard to find it fascinating to be alive."
— Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly
"Together, Lanthimos and his team of players and crew have conjured up a delight that – like its protagonist – is eccentric, smart, a little dark, lovely to look at and charming as hell."
— Jo-Ann Titmarsh, London Evening Standard
"It’s a tour de force performance from Stone, gamely matched by Ruffalo, and complimented by the dreamy, madcap world Lanthimos and his talented collaborators have created."
— Hannah Strong, Little White Lies
"As imaginative as the film’s comedy can be, its greatest asset is Emma Stone’s ability to situate Bella Baster first as jester, then as the emotional foundation upon which the whole of Poor Things is built."
— Kyle Turner, Slant Magazine
"The best film of Lanthimos’ career... mordantly funny, whimsical and wacky, unprecious and unpretentious, filled with so much to adore that to try and parse it all here feels like a pitiful response to the film’s ambitions."
— Ryan Lattanzio, indieWire
"Poor Things itself is an equally – and brilliantly – surprising hybrid: a feminist coming-of-age story, monster movie and bawdy, foul-mouthed sex romp that the Greek alchemist has somehow forged into a masterpiece."
— Philip De Semlyen, Time Out
