This movie year we’ve seen a number of entries, some quite wonderful, in various genres from the Superhero Movie (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “The Flash,” “The Marvels”) to the Corporate Origins Tale (“Air,” “BlackBerry,” “Tetris,” “Flamin’ Hot”) to the Existential Hit Man Fable (“Killer,” “Fast Charlie,” “John Wick: Chapter 4”) — but there’s always room for wholly original and unique stories, as evidenced by the one-two summer punch of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”
In that latter category, we can now add Yorgos Lanthimos’ beautifully garish, wonderfully twisted, unabashedly raunchy and at times grotesquely striking “Poor Things,” and while it might sound clichéd to say you’ve never seen anything like it, trust me: You’ve never seen anything like it.
