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Emma Stone said the role of reborn Bella Baxter in "Poor Things," in theaters Friday, inspired her to eliminate self-conscious qualities from her performance.

Yorgos Lanthimos makes his absurdist version of a crowdpleaser by cranking up the bizarre

Element Partners Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe discuss the audacity of Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things.

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Emma Stone is fearless in the latest film from director Yorgos Lanthimos.

It is sickly hilarious to make a movie in which so much consensual sex is had, often so gleefully, that is not the least bit sexy. Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and his star, Emma Stone, have a good and strange thing going whether she’s playing a striving scullery maid who works her way into the favor of Queen Anne, or a re-animated Victorian woman finding independence. Stone helps make his black humor more accessible, and he creates unorthodox opportunities for her to play and stretch.

Poor Things is a bizarre, sex-filled look at feminism through the lens of Victorian horror and misogyny. We loved it. Read our full review.

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Stone plays a re-animated Victorian woman in the latest demented confection from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos

Emma Stone gives an inspired performance in Yorgos Lanthimos' Frankenstein-themed, surreal dark comedy.