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Poor Things review: Emma Stone's beguilingly bonkers performance is worthy of an Oscar - I give it FIVE STARS! writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: Emma Stone won a Golden Globe last Sunday for her performance in Poor Things, and if she doesn't follow it with an Academy Award then I'll eat Mark Ruffalo's hat.
I first saw Poor Things at last year's Venice Film Festival (where it won the main prize, the Golden Lion) with no idea what to expect, except, on the evidence of Lanthimos's 2018 hit The Favourite (in which Stone also shone), a big dollop of weirdness. Clooney isn't a bad director but he made a hash of another true story, The Monuments Men (2014), and now he's done the same with this adaptation of a 2013 book about the University of Washington junior rowing eight who in 1936 won gold at the Berlin Olympics in front of, at least as the film tells it, a gurning Adolf Hitler. What all this means, of course, is a thunderously violent one-man killing spree in which Clay deploys guns, knives, fists, bombs and even petrol pumps to see off a battalion of baddies, none of whom ever work out that it makes sense to tackle a virtuoso exterminator as a swarm, not one by one.
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