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The Royal Hotel

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The Royal Hotel

2023

Kitty Green

Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving, Toby Wallace ...

5.7

520

Drama. Mystery After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Kitty Green re-teams with Julia Garner for another masterful story about the inescapability of the male gaze, this one much pulpier and more explosive than the last"	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"It goes without saying that leaving something to the imagination can often work wonders for a thriller. We just wonder if a few more crumbs might have led to a slightly more satisfying conclusion."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Kitty Green delivers a further devastating drama on toxic masculinity (...) Garner and co-star Jessica Henwick navigate the picture’s mixture of drama, suspense and horror superbly"	POS
United States	Esther Zuckerman Vanity Fair	"Laughter and wails are almost interchangeable. That tension makes the film excruciating but exciting"	NEU
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"A well-etched story on dread overload"	POS
United States	Isabella Soares Collider	"Although the film does end with a bang, these missteps leading up to the resolution make the final scene bittersweet"	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly The Wrap	"Garner and Jessica Henwick lead the way with guts and muscle in this unnerving and atmospheric genre exercise"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Los Angeles Times	"The central terror of Green's ferociously tense, intelligent movie is the terror of recognition"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It's everything and nothing at once although for a while, it's really something (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Amy Nicholson Variety	"Green [has] thought everything out, and planned it so that every scene in 'The Royal Hotel' is as gripping as it is pointed"	POS
Australia	Stephen A Russell Time Out Australia	"Michael Latham’s head-spinning cinematography and Jed Palmer’s similarly unnerving score add disconcerting layers. Garner is excellent (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	James Verniere Boston Herald	"Garner and Henwick make a great pair. Alice in Aussie Toxic Male-land"	POS
Canada	Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"A mostly terrific thriller with an ending that goes a little overboard"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick do impressive work (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"A chillingly spot-on depiction of how, in dank rooms filled with belligerent drunks, the line between a jolly time and a dangerous one is treacherously thin (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Siddhant Adlakha Mashable	"Despite Green's deft tonal control and masterful genre transformations, its victory rings hollow at a moment when artistic precision matters most"	NEU
United States	Greg Nussen Slant	"[It] shows its political hand as a feminist rallying cry (...) a necessary, if dreadful, marvel to behold (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Leila Latif IGN	"Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick are exceptional (...) Green further distinguishes herself as one of the most exciting and provocative feminist filmmakers around"	POS
United States	Marya E. Gates rogerebert.com	"Green continues to establish herself as an insightful chronicler of the minor yet devastating terrors of violent masculinity that many women endure everywhere they go (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	C.J. Prince The Globe and Mail	"It’s unfortunate that The Royal Hotel’s screenplay tends to needlessly reinforce information (...) 'The Royal Hotel' functions much better when it restrains than lets loose"	NEU
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"Green really demonstrates a sharp filmmaking talent, confidently handling the escalating drama, and especially the horrors of too much alcohol, with expert skill"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"Nerve-shredding outback thriller (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Júlia Olmo Cineuropa	"Kitty Green presents a powerful genre thriller about the alliance of two women in the face of fear and constant threat"	POS

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