Review by MANICAL

Poor Things 2023

So proud of my boy Jerskin now being 'Oscar-nominated Jerskin Fendrix'. From playing at the Windmill in Brixton (my favourite music scene of all time) to half-empty rooms to now scoring Yorgos Lanthimos's best film, with a killer cameo too! And my God he does such a fantasic job - it won't win the Oscar because it's too weird for them suited squares (although I am pleasantly surprised at the noms this year) but this is perhaps one of the best front-to-back scores I've ever heard - because it truly stands on its own but also always takes you back to the world of 'Poor Things' each track at a time.
Everyone go listen to his one and only album 'Winterreise'. It's a masterpiece and has always been one of the most overlooked albums of the 2020's but Poor Things goes to show that you don't need millions of spotify streams to catch the ear of the right people. The music videos' imagery for that album feel right in the lane of Yorgos and shows the art world actually becomes small AFTER you finish projects.

And yeah, this is the best film of the year. Emma Stone might be my favourite actress at this point. I was stunned. It's cliché but genuinely true for me here: I am not the same person I was before the movie.

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