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Napoleon
Directed by
Ridley Scott
R
2023
2h 38m
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6.3
58%
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An epic that details the chequered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
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Cast of Napoleon
Joaquin Phoenix
Napoleon Bonaparte / Producer
Vanessa Kirby
Josephine Bonaparte
Tahar Rahim
Paul Barras
Rupert Everett
Duke of Wellington
Mark Bonnar
Junot
Paul Rhys
Talleyrand
Ben Miles
Caulaincourt
Riana Duce
Lucille
Edouard Philipponnat
Tsar Alexander
Miles Jupp
Emperor Francis I
Scott Handy
Marshal Berthier
Youssef Kerkour
Marshal Davout
John Hollingworth
Marshal Ney
Abubakar Salim
General Dumas
Thom Ashley
La Bedoyere
Jannis Niewöhner
Hippolyte Charles
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Sieyes
John Hodgkinson
Fouche
Erin Ainsworth
Hortense I
Isabella Brownson
Hortense II
Napoleon Ratings & Reviews
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
Mr. Phoenix's Napoleon could never have commanded so much as a squadron of the Salvation Army, and though the movie is sprinkled with a few reasonably hearty battle scenes, overall it's something like Mr. Scott's Waterloo.
Breakfast All Day
Christy Lemire
I found it impressive and kind of startling at times, but I was not emotionally moved.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
If film fans trek to their local cinema, the meticulously staged war sequences, played like chess games, will keep them intrigued.
Los Angeles Times
Sergio Burstein
The best thing about this Napoleon can be found in the scenes that reproduce the intense relationship between Bonaparte and his first wife, Josephine. [Full review in Spanish]
FilmWeek (LAist)
Amy Nicholson
I feel like Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix dislike Napoleon too much to actually make a film about Napoleon.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
Phoenix is a wonderful actor, but seems miscast to the point where you wonder if that was the point.
Observer
Rex Reed
The result is a colossal bore that is never passionate, exciting, sexy or entertaining-save for exploding horses with their guts blown all over the landscape.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It makes for an awkward, disjointed epic with flashes of brilliance and flashes of utter nonsense.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Even with all its flaws tallied and noted like battlefield casualties, there's still something mildly compelling about it.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
In the end, you get your money's worth in extravaganza and cannon fire but not nearly enough of the charismatic personalities and bravura filmmaking a project this gargantuan needs.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
It relies far too often on the "little man, big temper" idea of Napoleon - at times, Phoenix is practically channeling an angry Donald Duck mid-meltdown - and the scenes between the two lovers make them seem more like robots emulating human beings.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
"Napoleon" is consistently surprising partly because it doesn't conform to the conventions of mainstream historical epics, which is especially true of its startling, adamantly unromanticized title character.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
By his own admission, this incarnation of Napoleon is only a cracked shell of what Scott originally wanted to deliver, so that it does not fully work is hardly a surprise.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
Hollywood's cantankerous elder statesman casts Joaquin Phoenix as Bonaparte by way of Monty Python, but the movie's bluster ultimately lacks clarity.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
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.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
Try as he might to capture the political complexities of their relationship and how it was sacrificed because of the needs for an heir, Scott tells rather than shows. It's all strategy, no tactics
New York Magazine/Vulture
Alison Willmore
It's likely that Ridley Scott has never even heard of memes, but his new film is perfectly primed to live on through them. It'd be better off consumed that way than in its turgid entirety.
The Atlantic
David Sims
Scott has promised that an extended version will debut on Apple TV+ someday, but I think the abridged version works -- Napoleon gives viewers a quick sense of the man's nervy vibe and then plunges them into the tremendous depths of his martial exploits.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
Director Ridley Scott cuts the world's most famous short person down to size - but it's not clear why.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Napoleon is filled with blood-spattered battle sequences and myriad powerful scenes.
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