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Napoleon English Movie

Feature Film | 2023 | Drama, Epic, History
Critics:
3.2
Critics
 

Review by: Richard Roeper - The Chicago Sun-Times
Magnificent ‘Napoleon’ depicts leader as brilliant general, ambitious statesman and sniveling little weasel. Joaquin Phoenix riveting in the title role of director Ridley Scott’s violent, sometimes hilarious epic.
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Review by: Michael Phillips - The Chicago Tribune
While Napoleon isn’t a spoof or a comic dismantling of a legend, its sense of humor is an uncertain thing indeed, matched by Scott’s frustrating uncertainty in crucial visual decisions.
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Review by: Anthony Lane - The New Yorker
If the movie falters, it’s because, as a bio-pic, it cannot do otherwise. Even the most expert of storytellers is defeated by the essential plotlessness of the form: one damn thing after another.
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Review by: Katie Walsh - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hilarious and often quite goofy... the film rides this juxtaposition of tones until Scott pulls the rug out from under to remind us that laughing at powerful buffoons can be quite dangerous and deadly.
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Review by: Justin Chang - The Los Angeles Times
Its glimmers of comic rage and generous helpings of battlefield carnage, though patchily entertaining on their own, never coalesce into a coherent reason for being. Phoenix, you might well argue, is reason enough.
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Review by: Brian Tallerico - Roger Ebert's website
A series of accomplished battle sequences looking for a better movie to connect them.
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Review by: Peter Travers - ABC News
In cramming 30 years of Napoleon's life into two hours and 38 minutes, Scott loses valuable connective tissue, but his film is never less than hypnotic.
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Review by: Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
Scott has created an outrageously enjoyable cavalry charge of a movie, a full-tilt biopic of two and a half hours in which Scott doesn’t allow his troops to get bogged down mid-gallop in the muddy terrain of either fact or metaphysical significance.
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Review by: David Fear - Rollingstone
You find yourself mulling over an incoherent epic, one whose shortcomings aren’t trying to make up for stature or status but arise from an uncertainty of perspective.
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