Film Review — Napoleon

Ridley Scott brilliantly depicts the titular dictator’s battles, but the relationship with Joséphine fails to convince

Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon Cinema
5 min readNov 24, 2023

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Credit: Sony/Apple

Once described as “my all-time favourite fascist dictator” by Arnold Rimmer in cult BBC sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf, the eponymous Corsican military genius with short stature but world-dominating ambition is given the…

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon Cinema

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com