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 ...

It features fabrications including showing him shooting at pyramids and leading a cavalry. In response to criticism, Scott told his critics to "get a life." Historians seem to be absolutely livid with ...

Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix, 'Napoleon' is doing far better than expected for a historical epic catering to older adults. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer From Apple ...

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. The ...

Ridley Scott fans rejoice, because Apple just shadow dropped a director's cut of the iconic filmmaker's Napoleon movie on its streaming service. Five months after Napoleon's theatrical version ...

Trust no one—not even me—who tries to tell you Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is any good. Good is perhaps not the word to use. Napoleon is a sprawl, a messy pageant, a little crazy and yet perhaps not crazy ...

Legendary director Ridley Scott is back with a sprawling historical drama about the rise and fall of French Emporer Napoleon Bonaparte. The film is pitched as "a spectacle-filled action epic," with ...

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 scene of ...

This is not the best historical moment for a hagiography of an overweening authoritarian populist. To his credit, director Ridley Scott appears to recognize the dangers. His new 158-minute epic ...

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