It's no Wake in Fright, but that's hardly a criticism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2023

The balance between realism and abstraction isn’t maintained quite until the end, which is effective in its way, but less than a fully convincing resolution to what has come before.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2023

The Royal Hotel simmers with the heat of oppressive testosterone at a pub in the Australian Outback. That is, until it boils over with cathartic female rage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2023

A psychological thriller, it’s all the more tense for Green’s smart understatement of the genre elements.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 5, 2023

[Kitty Green's] commitment to credibility, however, means that she (rightfully) swerves a Grand Guignol climax, and delivers instead a muted if oddly unsatisfactory farewell.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2023

A slight but mightily effective adrenaline rush of a movie, with powerful performances all round and precise direction from Kitty Green. Watch it on the big screen and allow it to properly get your heart pounding and palms sweating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2023

The script’s a little skimpy on the psychology separating this pair – we’re left to intuit things from their past, what they’re running from. The actresses club together, convincingly filling in the gaps.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2023

There’s a lot to admire in the performances from Garner, Henwick, Yovich and Weaving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2023

Garner and Henwick are doing the kind of acting that looks easy but isn’t. It’s a film of flickering doubts and accumulating, justifiable paranoia.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 23, 2023

This is so good. This is a slow burn and has such a vivid sense of place.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Oct 14, 2023

I think it's terrific, and I'm very excited to see what Kitty Green does next.

| Original Score: 7.8/10 | Oct 14, 2023

Written and directed with muscle and grit by Kitty Green, The Royal Hotel is loaded with grim ambiance, and there is even some suspense, mainly while the viewer waits to see if anything will ever happen.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2023

Although adapted from the shock documentary Hotel Coolgardie, about two Finnish tourists caught in the same trap, Green’s film has more in common with terrifying outback thrillers such as Wolf Creek.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2023

This slip of a movie works best as a tone poem about the constant maneuvering young women do through the waters of toxic masculinity, a Superfund site that seems unlikely to ever be un-polluted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2023

Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick turn in layered, nuanced performances, while the male actors playing varying degrees of scumbag are suitably and effectively nauseating and intimidating...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 6, 2023

The central terror of Green’s ferociously tense, intelligent movie is the terror of recognition.

| Oct 6, 2023

It’s a messier and less devastating work [than The Assistant], but it’s nevertheless very effective.

| Oct 6, 2023

The combination of Garner and Green is a potent force, and “The Royal Hotel” is another stinging rebuke to the kinds of workplace misogyny we’ve all too easily normalized.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 6, 2023

While the subject has been the province of clichés and exaggeration, the movie’s points are well-crafted.

| Oct 5, 2023

Bringing down one Royal Hotel is only the beginning of a lot more work that needs to be done.

| Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2023