Emma Stone gained the Finest Actress Oscar for LA LA LAND six years in the past. And he or she’s more likely to get an Oscar nomination this yr for her efficiency in POOR THINGS, a really unusual black comedy directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (THE LOBSTER). In Victorian England, a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) reanimates the physique of a pregnant girl who dedicated suicide. However he first replaces her mind with the mind of the fetus. Emma Stone is sensational as Bella, a woman in a girl’s physique whose motor abilities and intelligence develop quickly. Males typically make the most of her naivety, however that naivety additionally permits her to be delightfully unconventional. POOR THINGS is price watching, you possibly can tolerate Bella’s unusual and generally disagreeable misadventures. Mark Ruffalo co-stars. (On cinemas)