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<\/p>\nSony Pictures dropped the third and final trailer for the film Napoleon, starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, on Monday.<\/p>\n
The mostly silent, minute-long preview highlighted excerpts of the early positive reviews from critics at The Guardian, BBC Culture, The Times, HeyUGuys, and The Telegraph.<\/p>\n
The trailer then falsely equated the $200M-budget film’s genre ‘epic’ as the adjective ‘epic’ in seven publications – BBC Culture, Deadline, Collider, The Independent, The Film Verdict, IndieWire, and Empire.<\/p>\n
However, the biopic on French emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonapart currently has a 67% critic approval rating (out of 90 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n
Le Figaro’s Jean-Christophe Buisson wrote on Sunday that Napoleon should be renamed ‘Barbie and Ken under the Empire.’<\/p>\n
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‘I’m not built like other men’:\u00a0Sony Pictures dropped the third and final trailer for the film Napoleon, starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, on Monday<\/p>\n
French GQ took issue with French soldiers shouting ‘Vive La France’ with American accents, writing the movie was ‘deeply clumsy, unnatural, and unintentionally funny.’<\/p>\n
And biographer Patrice Gueniffey (Napoleon and de Gaulle, Bonapart) told Le Point last Tuesday it was a ‘very anti-French and very pro-British’ rewrite of history.<\/p>\n
‘The French don’t even like themselves,’ Napoleon director Ridley Scott told BBC on Sunday.<\/p>\n
‘The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.’<\/p>\n
The 85-year-old Englishman’s two-hour and 37-minute film takes artistic license numerous times, including cannonballs shot at the Sphinx and Napoleon witnessing Marie Antoinette executed at the guillotine in 1792.<\/p>\n
‘I’ve done a lot of historical films,’ Ridley told Total Film on Monday.<\/p>\n
‘I find I’m reading a report of someone else’s report 100 years after the event. So I wonder, “How much do they romance and elaborate? How accurate is it?” It always amuses me when a critic says to me, “This didn’t happen in Jerusalem.” I say, “Were you there? That’s the f***ing answer.”‘<\/p>\n
Napoleon – also starring Vanessa Kirby as Jos\u00e9phine and Rupert Everett as Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley – is scheduled to be released in US\/UK theaters this Wednesday.<\/p>\n
And Scott’s rumored four-hour director’s cut will begin streaming on Apple TV+ at a later date.<\/p>\n
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Five stars!\u00a0The mostly silent, minute-long preview highlighted excerpts of the early positive reviews from critics at The Guardian, BBC Culture, The Times, HeyUGuys, and The Telegraph<\/p>\n
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The trailer then falsely equated the $200M-budget film’s genre ‘epic’ as the adjective ‘epic’ in seven publications – BBC Culture, Deadline, Collider, The Independent, The Film Verdict, IndieWire, and Empire<\/p>\n
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As of press date: However, the biopic on French emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonapart currently has a 67% critic approval rating (out of 90 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes<\/p>\n
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Ouch! Le Figaro’s Jean-Christophe Buisson wrote on Sunday that Napoleon should be renamed ‘Barbie and Ken under the Empire’<\/p>\n
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Yikes! French GQ took issue with French soldiers shouting ‘Vive La France’ with American accents, writing the movie was ‘deeply clumsy, unnatural, and unintentionally funny’<\/p>\n
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Historian: Biographer Patrice Gueniffey (Napoleon and de Gaulle, Bonapart) told Le Point last Tuesday it was a ‘very anti-French and very pro-British’ rewrite of history<\/p>\n
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Napoleon director Ridley Scott told BBC on Sunday: ‘The French don’t even like themselves. The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it’\u00a0(pictured last Thursday)<\/p>\n
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Not accurate:\u00a0The 85-year-old Englishman’s two-hour and 37-minute film takes artistic license numerous times, including cannonballs shot at the Sphinx and Napoleon witnessing Marie Antoinette executed at the guillotine in 1792<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/19\/78031477-12772057-Ridley_told_Total_Film_on_Monday_I_ve_done_a_lot_of_historical_f-a-137_1700509051237.jpg\")
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Ridley told Total Film on Monday:\u00a0‘I’ve done a lot of historical films.\u00a0I find I’m reading a report of someone else’s report 100 years after the event. So I wonder, “How much do they romance and elaborate? How accurate is it?” It always amuses me when a critic says to me, “This didn’t happen in Jerusalem.” I say, “Were you there? That’s the f***ing answer”‘<\/p>\n
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‘Napoleon is coming’: Napoleon – also starring Vanessa Kirby (M) as Jos\u00e9phine and Rupert Everett as Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley – is scheduled to be released in US\/UK theaters this Wednesday<\/p>\n