LanthiMOST
21. Nov, 2018 
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The Favourite
Powdered Go NUTS!
Official Site | Trailers & Mo
R | 121 min
We keep wanting someone to be out next Stanley Kubrick, and while some push and argue for David Fincher or Christopher Nolan to be that guy, I think people are overlooking the work and genius that is Yorgos Lanthimos, as he’s the best heir to the throne!
His Dogtooth was a revelation. The Lobster wasn’t perfect, but we haven’t escaped its claws either and are still thinking about it years later.  The Killing of a Sacred Deer? Oh deer!!!!!!!!!!!
And his latest, the first he didn’t have a hand in writing – The Favourite? It’s like Barry Lyndon trapped in The Overlook Hotel, and that’s a wonderful wonderful wonderful thing. And if you’ve found Lanthimos’ other work to be way too bleak and hard to handle, this may suit your pansy-self a lot better, you pantsy pansy you!
Corseted Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz deliciously duel each other for the love and attention of Queen Anne (a maddeningly magnificent Olivia Colman). There is not a single non-tense moment in the film – it’s like watching one long-ass fuse burn and burn and burn, as we wait for the dynamite to explode. Along the way in this power play, we also get a cadre of powdered up men (Nicholas Hoult, Mr. Taylor Swift, James Smith, and Mark Gatiss) doing their own fun scheming and conniving. If you have a back in this movie, it will get stabbed. Â
Screw Jane Austen – cause Lanthimos’ court jesting is more aligned to my nutty senses and sensibilities!
Verdictgo: Breast In Show
Favourite compels U in NY/LA today and elsewhere elsewhen
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
