Unlike its subject, the success of Napoleon has been anything but romantic. Almost a full year after Ridley Scott's epic biopic hit theaters, the iconic director's film is still bogged down by its ...

The literal French definition of “tour de force,” an admiring noun that gets thrown around a lot in English, translates as “feat of strength.” Therefore, I don’t get it. I don’t get why Joaquin ...

The visual effects supervisors on Ridley Scott's epic talk about how real-world reference points combined with digital wizardry to create the Battle of Waterloo. A variety of economic factors — as ...

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 ...

BOTTOM LINE Thrilling battle sequences can’t save this disappointingly lifeless biopic. Some salient facts about Napoleon Bonaparte, the army general who survived the French Revolution to become the ...

Before I even had children, I loved dad movies. I have every word of “The Fugitive” memorized. I once went full “Braveheart” and used “I loov ya. Ullwees have” as a pickup line in college (didn’t work ...

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Discover What’s Streaming On: What was the deal with Napoleon, anyway? The United States education system has never been particularly good at getting across why this Corsican-born self-styled ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...

The literal French definition of “tour de force,” an admiring noun that gets thrown around a lot in English, translates as “feat of strength.” Therefore I don’t get it. I don’t get why Joaquin Phoenix ...