Emma Stone's 142-Minute R-Rated Sci-Fi Reimagining Finally Arrives on Netflix

One of Emma Stone's more unusual films has arrived on Netflix. Poor Things, which left Hulu and landed on Netflix on June 7, earned Stone her second Best Actress Oscar after La La Land (2016) and has been called a hidden gem among her projects. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, who previously worked with Stone on The Favorite and later on Kinds of Kindness and Bugonia, the R-rated film casts her as Bella Baxter.

Brought back to life by an eccentric scientist, Bella has the curiosity of a child in an adult body and sets off to challenge social conventions while exploring freedom, identity and independence; Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe co-star. Based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel, the movie nods to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein but takes a very different tack.

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