★★★★☆ Most people know the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte for his somewhat ironic height. For someone who is known for his big ego and successes, Napoleon is estimated to only measure 5 foot 7.

Napoleon (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Ridley Scott, written by David Scarpa and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett, Mark Bonnar, Paul Rhys, Ben Miles ...

The film’s varying attitude toward history may turn away some history buffs, but “Napoleon” is, overall, a movie that successfully differentiates itself from other historical dramas.

The film begins right when you would expect it would — during the French Revolution in 1789 — and speeds to the beheading of Marie Antoinette and the fall of Maximilien Robespierre.

The life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte do not seem like a laughing matter. Watching director Ridley Scott’s new historical epic about the infamous Frenchman, though, frequent snickering or the ...

Napoleon, director Ridley Scott ‘s 28th feature film (and counting), is not so much an Oscar-baiting historical epic as it is a grand farce about a small man.

Call it the 18th-century equivalent of being ghosted. On his military campaigns, French general (and later emperor) Napoleon Bonaparte would send his wife Josephine mostly unrequited love letters ...

Napoleon Bonaparte did a lot, but he didn’t quite do it all. He did not, for example, fire a bunch of cannons at the Egyptian pyramids. Does it matter that Ridley Scott’s Napoleon includes a ...

Scott and Phoenix previously collaborated on the 2000 film Gladiator. The film explores the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte (Phoenix), a French military leader who ruled as emperor in the ...

Napoleon Bonaparte (Phoenix) seems to understand that both kinds of problems can be solved by cannon fire—and he is more than happy to employ it. The most satisfying thing about the way Phoenix plays ...

With the new Ridley Scott film “Napoleon,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, hitting theaters this week, General Bonaparte is having a cultural moment. Another one.