Stepping out of Yorgos Lanthimos' grotesquely gorgeous Poor Things, I found myself frowning at the world around me, struggling to take in the sheer, thudding, somehow plaintive dullness of it all.

Emma Stone runs amok with Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe in Yorgos Lanthimos’s off-key Victorian-era riff on “Frankenstein.” transcript The director Yorgos Lanthimos narrates a sequence from ...