“Stuffed” premieres at the Toronto Film Festival as a macabre, eccentric musical comedy featuring Jodie Comer and Harry Melling. Reviewers describe it as a taxidermy-themed oddity that combines dark comedy with more intimate emotional aims.
The outlets connect the film’s debut timing to the festival, noting that it screens in the same edition as “Prima Facie,” another awards-circuit project starring the same actor—though in “Prima Facie,” Cynthia Erivo takes the screen role. Deadline frames “Stuffed” through its high-concept premise—likened to “Sweeney Todd with taxidermy”—and credits the leads for delivering what it calls a memorable experience.
Variety and Deadline both emphasize the film’s unusual body-centric musical setup and the performances at its core. Differences in tone appear in their assessments of how fully the film’s ambition lands: Deadline highlights that the story’s themes of loneliness mostly work, while also pointing to elements that do not fully succeed, including aspects of the score.
