Watching the film, however, is akin to being read a history book by a boring professor. There’s no passion in the storytelling. Napoleon focuses largely on the who, what, when, where, and how, with no ...

The movie starts off in 1821, six years after his exile to Saint Helena when Napoleon has big plans to escape. His plan is to escape to France after switching places with a deckhand and then when he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is a sumptuous feast for the eyes according to film critics who just saw the film. The movie, detailing the life of the Emperor Napoleon (played by Joaquin Phoenix) and his ...

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 ...

Gladiator alumni Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix will reunite to portray another one of history’s greatest military geniuses: Napoleon. And, like its titular character in the trailer says, he and the ...