[2] The album being a mix of humour, surprise, irreverence and depth, Lanthimos felt it perfectly fit for the protagonist Bella Baxter, played by Emma Stone.

[6] Jonathan Romney of Screen International wrote "the sounds here range from eerie string shrieks and toy room staccato rhythms to a lusher style that evokes a hyper-distorted variation on Michael Nyman.

"[7] Calling the score "remarkable", The Hollywood Reporter-critic David Rooney described it as "a kind of punk-classical panoply of sounds, often dissonant, jarring, agitated or lugubrious, elsewhere mischievous and capering".

Scraping, naive single instruments initially struggle to stay in tune, before combining into a swelling, symphonic whole at the end, mapping onto Bella’s rapid-order experience.

[10] Guy Lodge of Variety wrote "experimental pop artist Jerskin Fendrix’s gnawing, atonal score — mirroring Bella’s switching fixations by doggedly stressing one instrument at a time — stands out for its severity.

His discordant motifs and harshly plucked strings mesh with Bella’s wide, feverishly curious eyes and unbalanced footing.

When Poor Things reaches its heartfelt close, the sound of triumphant musical sentimentality is overwhelming, like it’s personally beckoning you into its deeply human oddities.