Rate it: Poor Things (2023)

6.

The only Lanthimos movies I like are The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Favourite, honestly.

And Deborah Davis needs to help Tony McNamara with every screenplay he writes. I think she reeled in his grossest tendencies with The Favourite.

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9.

A generous 2/10

An 8............until the end when it's too well you know repetetive and obvious........but when it works it really works.....sometimes it's my number2 of 2023........sometimes I think it's 3rd or 4th........but still ......

Gets the benefit of a higher rating just for how Stone says her name ........Bella Bax----------teeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr (like Monsterrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

10, I get the momentum stopper in Abbott, though I think that's intentional, as we're all ready for the happy ending and you as an audience, along with the other characters are supposed be like, "who's this prick now?". And I actually like the choice more and more, though I do understand the criticism.

OK, top 3 far above the others:

1. Theodoros Angelopoulos
2. Michael Cacoyannis
3. Kostas Gavras (Ok, most of his films were made in France, but he's a Greek filmmaker)

Then the others:

Nikos Nikolaidis
Vasilis Georgiadis (The only Greek director with two films nominated for the foreign language Oscar)
Pantelis Voulgaris
Giorgos Tzavellas
Nikos Foskolos
Yannis Economides (The best Greek director right now and I'd put him just above Lanthimos because I like his style more and he captures the problems of contemporary Greek society very pointedly).

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