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Disturbing trip to the sexist outback is cut short by a simplistic ending
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Disturbing trip to the sexist outback is cut short by a simplistic ending
The Royal Hotel, Kitty Green's follow-up to The Assistant, explores similar themes with a dramatically different social dynamic.
In The Royal Hotel, director Kitty Green eschews the typical revenge thriller for a psychological study that’ll tie your guts into knots.
Julia Garner (‘Ozark’) and Jessica Henwick do impressive work as the backpackers stuck working at a foreboding Australian tavern.
“The Royal Hotel,” the setting of Kitty Green’s ulcer-inducing thriller, is a sun-baked bar in a rural Australian mining town surrounded by terrain so monotone that Canadian backpackers Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) can’t keep their eyes open on the way in. The two young women arrive at their barmaid jobs with a …