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Releasing on Nov 22, 2023
  • 2023
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 38 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 38 m

Summary Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix). Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his ad...

Directed By: Ridley Scott

Written By: David Scarpa

  • 2023
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 38 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 2 h 38 m
Napoleon
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
66
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Summary Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix). Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his ad...

Directed By: Ridley Scott

Written By: David Scarpa

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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100
Nov 14, 2023
Phoenix is the key to it all: a performance as robust as the glass of burgundy he knocks back: preening, brooding, seething and triumphing.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 14, 2023
In short, it’s the life of Napoleon as only Scott can tell it, full of verve, spectacle, and machismo. Its battle scenes are thrilling, a throwback to the sort of spectacle no one in Hollywood – save, well, Ridley Scott – is interested in anymore. But it can be equally dispassionate, in a way that duly and accurately captures the man one contemporary described as “a chess master whose opponents happen to be the rest of humanity”.
By Clarisse Loughrey FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 14, 2023
The film’s epic nature embraces not only size and scope but also the exquisite craftsmanship on display, from the detail work of Janty Yates and Dave Crossman’s costumes to cinematographer Dariusz Wolski’s ability to differentiate a successful battle from a disastrous one simply through his lighting choices.
By Alonso Duralde FULL REVIEW
67
Nov 14, 2023
Waterloo makes for a clear and terrific setpiece that’s almost on par with the digital spectacle that Scott creates from the cold death of Austerlitz, but by that point Napoleon’s outsized ambitions have been long subsumed by a film so lost in its epic sweep that it’s become the butt of its own, frequently scathing joke.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 14, 2023
Ridley Scott delivers a spectacular but flavourless French history lesson.
By Phil de Semlyen FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 14, 2023
Dense without feeling rushed, then done without ever having really sprung to life, Napoleon seems determined to cover a great deal of ground over its not-insignificant running time.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
42
Nov 15, 2023
Napoleon is not a complete wash, mercifully, its strengths pooled in extended and gory battle sequences. You can feel Scott’s excitement at this material, how eager the film is to explain military strategy or blast a cannon through a soldier’s body.
By Fran Hoepfner FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Apple Studios, Apple, Dune Films, Latina Pictures, Scott Free Productions
Release Date Nov 22, 2023
Duration 2 h 38 m
Rating R
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