The Favourite (2018) - Critic Reviews - Page 12 of 14

221-240 of 271 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Travis Hopson (923) for Punch Drunk Critics (518) on 24 Oct 2018

Provides a lot of sick enjoyment, but like too many of Lanthimos' films the high doesn't last quite long enough…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Perri Nemiroff (375) for Collider (1,032) on 23 Oct 2018

A highly entertaining, intoxicating and nasty escapade that reveals the miserable emptiness of unearned, false power and love…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Ben Rolph (32) for Discussing Film (16) on 23 Oct 2018

The Favourite delivers a sense of confidence from the very start, as Lanthimos controls the spectator's emotions with a balance of tragedy…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Kristy Puchko (422) for Pajiba (523) on 23 Oct 2018

The Favourite is fascinating, ferociously funny, and hands down one of the best films of the year…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Jazz Tangcay (23) for Awards Daily (23) on 22 Oct 2018

The Favourite is a ridiculously fun film…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Movies with Mae (104) on 21 Oct 2018

The Favourite enjoys being whimsical and allows itself to run wild, but that's also part of its downfall…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Hannah Ryan (27) for Screen Queens (73) on 21 Oct 2018

The Favourite is a complete joy - it offers a space in which women are allowed to control their own fates, to throw themselves into their desires…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Ella Kemp (95) for Culture Whisper (31) on 21 Oct 2018

In the seesawing emotions of the female-led monarchy, there's a newfound gravity that increases the credibility of Lanthimos' comedy…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 20 Oct 2018

Supercharged by zesty, pin-sharp dialogue by writers Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite is a brilliantly barbed character piece…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Josh Martin (34) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 19 Oct 2018

The Favourite succeeds in engulfing us in a world of pettiness and extravagance, where cake and power matter more than political strife or human cost…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Alistair Ryder (351) for Gay Essential (53) on 18 Oct 2018

For those unaccustomed to Lanthimos' previous films, this could be the perfect introduction to his work…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Linda Marric (107) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 18 Oct 2018

Sharp, filthy and fantastically anarchic, The Favourite is a hilarious and original vision that is an utter delight…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Nikki Baughan (240) for The List (2,018) on 17 Oct 2018

Underneath the pomp and powdered wigs it makes scathing commentary about the devastating nature of power struggles that remains blisteringly…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Dwight Brown (181) for National Newspaper Publishers Association (180) on 14 Oct 2018

If you're tired of those boring royal British films and want to see the genre turned upside down, this dark, nasty bit of debauchery and revenge…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Theo Schear (5) for Film Threat (5,156) on 14 Oct 2018

This is a work of art that embraces and embellishes all the joys of cinema while offering a more enjoyable and progressive revisionist history…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Lauren Humphries-Brooks (64) for CC2K (29) on 08 Oct 2018

The Favourite is Lanthimos's most accessible film, shaped by aesthetics but driven by plot and character…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By David Fontana (92) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 08 Oct 2018

With an infectious sense of humor, some wonderfully captivating performances, and a decidedly deeper takeaway, it is a shining example of a…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Rendy Jones (321) for Rendy Reviews (320) on 01 Oct 2018

This is the closest thing we'll ever get to a proper Alice in Wonderland adaptation because everyone's mad here…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Edward Douglas (1,395) for The Weekend Warrior (71) on 01 Oct 2018

I don't think The Favourite will be for everyone…

Read Review

Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Kyle Smith (1,916) for National Review (314) on 01 Oct 2018

What [his] tools primarily do is create a fantastic sense of suspense, to have us begging to know how he could possibly wrap it all up…

Read Review

Page 12 of 14

More reviews of this movie:

The Favourite (2018) Movie Reviews (756)
The Favourite (2018) User Reviews (485)

Perhaps you were looking for:

The Favourite Game (2003)

Olivia Colman - Top 5 movies:

Rachel Weisz - Top 5 movies:

Emma Stone - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

Brokeback Mountain

2005

81%1,016 Reviews

Brazil

1985

81%59 Reviews

Bad Education

2004

78%620 Reviews

Walk on Water

2004

73%156 Reviews

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000

83%729 Reviews

Billy Elliot

2000

77%645 Reviews

Bros

2022

60%126 Reviews

Maybe... Maybe Not

1994

64%16 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Talk to Me

2023

74%83 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Inside Out

2015

86%1,276 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Favourite

2018

76%756 Reviews

Star Trek: Nemesis

2002

57%829 Reviews

Chinatown

1974

86%854 Reviews

Riding in Cars with Boys

2001

63%476 Reviews

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

2010

72%230 Reviews

Fallen

1998

72%520 Reviews

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

2009

49%167 Reviews

Kinsey

2004

69%632 Reviews

Burying the Ex

2014

44%76 Reviews

Major League

1989

72%474 Reviews