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Ridley Scott’s ‘theatrical cut’ stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor and Vanessa Kirby as a barely-there Josephine.

Ridley Scott’s new 160-minute biopic on Napoleon Bonaparte is handsome but dull.

Ridley Scott's biopic Napoleon is occasionally a little general and risks the scorn of historians – but more than makes up for it in cinematic spectacle.

Joaquin Phoenix is back with director Ridley Scott as Napoleon for the titular film after 23 years. The Napoleon director has opened up about how he decided the Oscar winner was perfect for the part.

The 85-year-old Englishmans film takes artistic license numerous times, including cannonballs shot at the Sphinx and Napoleon witnessing Marie Antoinette executed

It’s a portrayal so undignified that I almost expected ABBA’s “Waterloo” to play over the credits.

It’s not just you. People everywhere have long had a fascination with Napoleon Bonaparte. The madmen of history are oddly alluring that way.

Ridley Scott has fired back at French film critics after they published a series of negative reviews of his new biopic, Napoleon. 

The always watchable Joaquin Phoenix presents Napoleon as a capricious, socially awkward man of keen, strategic intelligence and a delusional ego. Vanessa Kirby brings a sly sexuality and a spine of steel to the aristocratic Josephine, a perfect, tempered foil for Napoleon in Ridley Scotts ambitious "Napoleon."

Director Ridley Scott hacks history with “Napoleon,” his interpretation of the life of the early 19th century French Emperor. The film is highlighted by grandly staged and shot battle sequences