Napoleon - Ridley Scott's film with Joaquin Phoenix

[Ingwar]

https://deadline.com/gallery/napoleon-world-premiere-gallery/

[Nightmare Asylum]

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It's a winner!

Napoleon review – Joaquin Phoenix makes a magnificent emperor in thrilling biopic
Ridley Scott dispenses with the symbolic weight attached to previous biopics in favour of a spectacle with a great star at its centre 5/5

https://theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/15/napoleon-review-joaquin-phoenix-emperor-ridley-scott

Napoleon review: Ridley Scott's biopic is 'an awe-inspiring achievement' 4/5

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231114-napoleon-review-ridley-scotts-biopic-is-an-awe-inspiring-achievement.

The Times
Napoleon review — all hail Joaquin Phoenix's captivating emperor. 4/5
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Genuinely thrilling! Ridley Scott's incredibly precise and masterfully acted film is his finest since Gladiator. The very definition of a must-see film. 5/5

https://www.heyuguys.com/napoleon-review/

Negative review from Variety. No score given.

Napoleon' Review: Ridley Scott Ricochets Between the Battlefield and Bedroom in Bloated Take on French Despot

Scott's take on Napoleon is distinctively deadpan: a funny, idiosyncratic close-up of the man, rather than a broader, all-encompassing account. 4/5

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/napoleon-2023/

'Napoleon' Review: Joaquin Phoenix Excels As A Master Of War In Ridley Scott's Psychologically Complex But Brilliantly Staged Biopic

https://deadline.com/2023/11/napoleon-review-joaquin-phoenix-vaness-kirby-in-ridley-scott-psychologically-complex-but-brilliantly-staged-biopic-1235612080/

Scott brings his A game. The film is a gripping, often delightfully lairy slab of pop history, made with mischief, flash and meticulous craft. 4/5

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Napoleon review: "One of Ridley Scott's best in almost two decades"

These may be issues that the longer cut solves, but even in its already lengthy theatrical form, Napoleon has achieved another resounding victory. 4/5

https://www.gamesradar.com/napoleon-review/

Napoleon, review: blunt-force charisma from Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott's dark, epic biopic

Only a true master general could corral a piece of cinema this rolling and rich. 4/5

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2023/11/15/napoleon-review-ridley-scott/

Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, Ridley Scott's latest is one of his most grandiose projects to date.

Napoleon is a grand film, both in terms of Scott creating a story with a size we've rarely seen from him, and the bold, large choices made by a completely game Phoenix. B+

https://collider.com/napoleon-movie-review/

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It's still going up and down as reviews come in but not bad so far. The Last Duel was in the 90's at one point.



If the directors cut does for Napoleon what the directors cut did for Kingdom of Heaven this is going to be really epic.

It also bodes well for Gladiator II, since David Scarpa also wrote the script for that and as we know, if Ridley gets a good script he makes a good movie.

Scott's western might also have Scarpa attached and Denis Villeneuve's Cleopatra is also rumoured to have been written by Scarpa.

...it's mostly a comedy about the weirdest little loser in all of Europe

Sounds like the English take on Napoleon. 

No wonder all the British newspapers and magazines are raving about the film!

[KiramidHead]

Bonaparte is Afraid

[Nightmare Asylum]

Just got added to the IMAX near me, so I swapped out my standard ticket for Tuesday for an IMAX one.

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https://twitter.com/Brian_Tallerico/status/1724582288866849131

[Local Trouble]

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1724065199122948523

[Ingwar]

Napoleon Review: British Filmmaker Makes Laughing Stock of French Emperor
Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix's Napoleon is the unexpected comedy delight of the holiday season, as the pair satirize the little man in a big hat. The French will probably hate it.

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/napoleon-review-british-makes-laughing-stock-french/

They do indeed

French critics pour scorn on Ridley Scott's 'clumsy' Napoleon

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-critics-pour-scorn-ridley-scott-napoleon-history-errors-vpf3ckvtj

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Someone tell them Napoleon wasn't even French.

[Ingwar]

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https://twitter.com/Brian_Tallerico/status/1724582288866849131

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Sounds like the English take on Napoleon. 

No wonder all the British newspapers and magazines are raving about the film!

There is the unmistakable sense that this Napoleon is an Englishman's smirking estimation of "the little general" with the big head. The French will probably hate it.

Haven't seen a single negative pommy review yet, the seppos seem divided and Ingwar's already posted what the frogs think. There's probably rioting in the streets of Corsica as we speak...