Napoleon (the movie) released worldwide

Napoleon premiered at Salle Pleyel in Paris on November 14, 2023.

The movie is to be first released in the United States & United Kingdom before its official launch on AppleTV+ later, with Joaquin Phoenix to play the role in and as Napoleon. With excitement in hearts, the audience awaits the movie to make its way.

Critical response (source: Wikipedia)

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 69% of 115 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Ridley Scott is intent on proving the emperor has no clothes in Napoleon, a slyly funny epic with bravura set pieces whose divided runtime keeps it from outright conquering." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating "generally favourable" reviews.

French critics had a less enthusiastic view than those from Britain and America, with a review in Le Figaro stating that the film could have been called "Barbie and Ken under the Empire", and another in the French edition of GQ deeming it to be "deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally clumsy".

Writing in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave the film a full five stars and called it a "thrilling biopic", concluding that Scott "doesn't withhold the old-fashioned pleasures of spectacle and excitement. Phoenix is the key to it all: a performance as robust as the glass of burgundy he knocks back: preening, brooding, seething and triumphing." Writing in The Observer, Wendy Ide gave it three out of five, calling it a "sturdy epic" that struggled to "show us what drove ​the military mastermind". She continued, "A man, even a man as combative as Napoleon, amounts to more than the battles he has fought. And it is in this respect that the film is less successful." The BBC's Nicholas Barber found the film's battle sequences "spectacular", and also praised the performances of Kirby and Phoenix. Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post wrote: "[...] it's too bad Scott could not deliver a brilliant character study of one of the world's great military leaders — and instead settled for letting a self-indulgent Phoenix fly over the cuckoo's nest".

In The Sunday Times, historian Andrew Roberts criticised the historical aspects of the film, particularly the portrayal of Napoleon as a proto-Hitler, a view he called "as tired as it is absurd".