The Favourite is a wild and hilarious romp that is equal parts everything I love about Yorgos Lanthimos, but it’s also quite unique and different for him as well.

| Aug 7, 2024

In between its stylish costumes and jovial soundtrack is a film with plenty to say on power, and how it’s most suited to the merciless and the conniving rather than the good natured.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Yorgos Lanthimos’ trip to 18th century England is so irreverent in its jabs at the power dynamics of high society that I half expected to see cameo appearances by the cast of Monty Python.

| Jul 2, 2024

The most interesting proposal of The Favourite is the change of socially imposed roles regarding gender, here these canonical mandates are transgressed and inverted. While the men flirt and use makeup, the women have the real power.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 27, 2024

Yorgos Lanthimos defies expectations and gives us a slow-burning analysis of politics and power dynamics that might be set in the 18th Century but couldn’t be more relevant to our day and age.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 3, 2023

Technically, The Favourite is undoubtedly one of the best movies of 2018. The impressive production and set design plus the addictive score definitely elevate the film, but the costume design tells a whole story through what the characters wear.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

The Favourite is yet another triumph from one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema.

| Jul 19, 2023

Olivia Coleman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone bring the kind of acting calibre you expect to this Yorgos Lanthimos misadventure.

| Apr 19, 2023

Robbie Ryan's lens captures the world's excesses with rhythm and pleasant malice - a world that's simultaneously funny, grotesque, decadent, and perverse. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 8, 2022

The tone is delightfully bawdy and irreverent, but director Yorgos Lanthimos has some serious things to say about history, war, politics, gender and the human heart.

| Dec 7, 2022

“The Favourite” shines brightest through its top-notch performances across the board and in the sheer beauty of the filmmaking. That light fades when you get down to the meat of the storytelling.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

The Favourite is a showcase of great acting, a witty script, and thoughtfully considered direction.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Yorgos at his zany peak, Amadeus via Kubrick, the royal court scenes from The Devils run blisteringly amok - blackbirds dancing on the tips of diabolical hat pins

| Jan 14, 2022

Episode 21: Alps / Dogtooth / The Favourite - Yorgothon

| Original Score: 88/100 | Sep 3, 2021

There are moments when you feel like you're watching a spoof, but Lanthimos manages to keep the film's tone perfectly on the right side of bizarre, making it also pass legitimately as a historical drama.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1, 2021

[A] double chocolate and cream cherry cake of a film, served on the finest cinematic lace, chock full of arsenic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2021

While some viewers may argue with The Favourite's often cruel tone, no one finds any room to downgrade its acting and superb production values.

| Jul 22, 2021

The Favourite is delightfully outlandish and uproariously funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

I have to say [Rachel Weisz] is fantastic in the role.

| Jun 16, 2021

Just sublime.

| May 10, 2021