The most exquisitely sumptuous and wonderfully, at times painfully absurd film, with arguably one of the most complex assortment of ethically ambiguous thought experiments I've seen committed to screen for some time. Stone is mesmerisingly brilliant, and her central magnetic performance anchors the troublingly intricate and morally twisted storyline within its luridly maximalist settings. This manages to be both uproariously funny, and heartbreakingly prescient, wrapped up in divine costumes and philosophical repartee with an undercurrent of Gothic grotesquery that results in an extraordinarily compelling experience. 9.63/10