The Favourite - Reviews

...deserves credit mostly for rising the desperate humanity of its female characters up to the surface, as they get challenged by their respective demons...

...is about power in all its forms, where sex and policy and even brute violence are deployed as the moment calls for it.

Yorgos Lanthimos (...) has conjured up a “Moll Flanders” or “Tom Jones” for a feminist age — nasty and brutal, slapstick that draws blood.

...buried in its black, raucous heart is a melancholic ode to foiled love and unfathomable loss.

It is a scabrous and often hilarious film, made loopier by the nightmarish visions and wide-angle distortions contrived by the cinematographer Robbie Ryan.

...Stone is clever, perky, and playful, and Weisz is cool, decisive, and sensual; they clash beautifully.

The Favourite might be the first genuinely upsetting Lanthimos film (it’s maybe too early to describe it as “moving”), and that is squarely down to Colman’s astonishingly fragile performance.

...a one of a kind film that is wickedly funny and also has some profound themes regarding how true love can be a lot more acerbic than is typically believed.

Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz are a majestic triumvirate in a period piece that's as tragic as it is hilarious.

Stone har den egentlige hovedrolle som lykkejægeren Abigail, der formår at holde fast i vores sympati, mens hun langsomt løfter sløret for sin intrigante karakter under englekrøllerne.

Märkligt och mycket mänskligt maktspel.

Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz och Emma Stone är alla briljanta i detta psykologiska och mörkt humoristiska drama, som känns mer levande än Lanthimos tidigare filmer.

...en sprudlende kostumekomedie.