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By Clayton Davis (240) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 30 Sep 2018

Swallowing her role whole, Olivia Colman's Queen Anne is a marvelous portrait of a frail, broken woman, with insecurities wearing on every…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 29 Sep 2018

What makes The Favourite work are its women—who rule, both literally within the movie and outwardly, dominating our enjoyment…

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By Oliver Whitney (71) for ScreenCrush (954) on 27 Sep 2018

A movie where women hold all the power, and get to revel in some debauchery while pulling the strings, feels like a real treat…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 27 Sep 2018

In The Favourite, Lanthimos opens up these characters more, yet still keeping the darker aspects of his techniques intact…

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By David Crow (142) for Den of Geek (424) on 27 Sep 2018

It resists the urge of fawning reverence and hagiography that so bedevils most productions about British monarchs…

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By E. Oliver Whitney (111) for ScreenCrush (954) on 27 Sep 2018

This is less Lanthimos’ film than it is Colman, Stone, and Weisz’s…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 10 Sep 2018

Well-executed dark comedy of court intrigue in 18th-century England…

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By Giovanni Marchini Camia (57) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Sep 2018

No amount of ostentation proves sufficient to spruce up the insipid narrative, which strains to fulfil its two-hour running time as if it were…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 06 Sep 2018

The dualities provided by Weisz and Stone are wonderful: hot vs. cold, scheming vs. naïve, with ambition ultimately winning out…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 06 Sep 2018

The comedy is elegant, frequently dark and genuinely witty. The spectacle is gorgeous…

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By Paul O'callaghan (20) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 Sep 2018

The Favourite, notably the first of Yorgos Lanthimos’s films to be written by others, is more narratively coherent and conventional than…

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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 04 Sep 2018

Lanthimos has transferred his own peculiar vision of human oddity into the past, in a way that makes most period drama seem formulaic and inert…

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By Baradwaj Rangan (28) for Film Companion Reviews (159) on 03 Sep 2018

Lanthimos snaps out of the mannered sameness that was threatening to suffocate his work…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Sep 2018

This couldn’t be further from the corsets and curtsies of your typical Hollywood prestige period piece…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 02 Sep 2018

The Favourite is a pleasure to watch. It’s weird without being alienating, dirty without being cheap…

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By Raphael Abraham (46) for Financial Times (1,822) on 30 Aug 2018

The Favourite is an absolute riot, a scabrous and wickedly enjoyable bodice-ripper that makes the dastardly deeds of Dangerous Liaisons look…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC.com (1,500) on 30 Aug 2018

Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite is a filthy, violent and outrageous period comedy that drips with bad language and worse behaviour, and will…

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By Brian Viner (589) for Daily Mail (UK) (1,461) on 30 Aug 2018

Lanthimos has an eye for the grotesque that suits overt comedy even better than it does quirky horror…

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By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 29 Aug 2018

It's Colman who steals the show…

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By Michael Nordine (446) for indieWire (3,631) on 29 Aug 2018

Lanthimos wants us to examine the different reasons we grasp at power — avarice, self-preservation, even fear — and better understand its…

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