Review: "Poor Things" is a poignant and profane fairy tale for adults

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone re-team for another instant classic

The mind inevitably casts about for analogies when trying to describe a film as strange and singular as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. It is Frankenstein in its basic concept (the Mary Shelley book specifically, not the Universal monster iteration), but more akin to Pinocchio in execution as the story of a father creating a child who goes out into the w…