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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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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Aug 2018

This time the irony is of the tragic kind, and the stinging, wicked wit is tinctured with wholly new notes of tenderness…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 29 Aug 2018

This is a skewer-sharp and scabrously funny film, stuffed with quotable deadpan exchanges, often punctuated by that now-trademark Lanthimos…

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By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 29 Aug 2018

[Yorgos Lanthimos'] idiosyncratic style is an acquired taste that's starting to go stale, and as such this is one of those films that works…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 29 Aug 2018

The Favourite is one of those rare films where the energy generated by three talents at the top of their game and the energy generated by their…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 29 Aug 2018

The Favourite has ribaldry and intelligence to burn, a deliciously entertaining period piece that feels liberated by its period, rather than…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 Aug 2018

[Yorgos Lanthimos'] fabulously entertaining tragicomedy, The Favourite, is a juicy power tangle connecting three women in the royal court of…

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By Leonardo Goi (38) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 29 Aug 2018

Endlessly quotable and serendipitously timely — all the more so considering the whole project was conceived nine years ago — The Favourite…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 29 Aug 2018

The Favourite is a wicked delight, a fantastic little cupcake of a movie laced with thistle frosting…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Aug 2018

It’s a perfectly cut diamond of a movie — a finely executed, coldly entertaining entry in the genre of savage misanthropic baroque costume drama…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 29 Aug 2018

The Favourite may have corrected Lanthimos’s tendency towards arthouse torpor…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 29 Aug 2018

Watching these three fiercely intelligent women, played by a trio of powerhouse actresses, is endlessly fascinating, as the goalposts constantly…

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