Emma Stone's "extraordinary" movie hailed as a "masterpiece" is now streaming for free

After airing on TV on Saturday night, Emma Stone's hugely acclaimed movie Poor Things is now streaming for free on Channel 4. Films on the service usually have a countdown of about 28 days before they are removed, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.

Adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel, the film stars Stone as Bella Baxter, a woman who is brought back from the dead with the brain of a child and leaves her mad scientist's lab behind to explore the world.

As well as Stone, the cast includes Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and Christopher Abbott, with Vicki Pepperdine and Margaret Qualley also featuring.

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The film serves as Stone's second collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, after The Favourite. Following this film, the duo teamed up again to work on Kinds of Kindness and Bugonia.

Poor Things was a hit at the box office, becoming Lanthimos' best-performing film on the big screen, and won two Golden Globes, four Oscars, and five BAFTAs, with Stone winning her a trophy at each ceremony for her performance.

Over on Rotten Tomatoes, it has an incredible strong score of 92% from 379 critic reviews.

The Sydney Morning Herald said that Bella Baxter was "an extraordinary character in an extraordinary film made by a director so at ease with the language of cinema that he can produce wonders with it".

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Time Out called the film "an equally – and brilliantly – surprising hybrid: a feminist coming-of-age story, monster movie and bawdy, foul-mouthed sex romp that the Greek alchemist has somehow forged into a masterpiece".

Toronto Star described the film as "a confection that delights the more you partake of it", while esteemed critic Richard Roeper called it "beautifully garish" and "wonderfully twisted".

Poor Things is currently streaming on Channel 4, and is also available on Disney+.

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