In 1803, war erupted in Europe once again. Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of the First Republic of France, had an eye on conquering Great Britain, assembling as many as 200,000 soldiers near ...

Gueniffey hat das Bild gefestigt, das sich die Franzosen von Napoleon machen wollen. Ridley Scotts Film liefere «die Karikatur eines ehrgeizigen Rüpels», sagt er. Da sei nichts zu spüren vom ...

“Napoleon” lands somewhere in between, a solid and sweeping version of the French leader’s war-torn life that proves too flat between the action sequences – a shiny bauble with a hollow ...

To his credit, director Ridley Scott appears to recognize the dangers. His new 158-minute epic “Napoleon” is about how the French leader’s vast and relentless ambition poisons his life ...

The life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte do not seem like a laughing matter. Watching director Ridley Scott’s new historical epic about the infamous Frenchman, though, frequent snickering or the ...

Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Joaquin Phoenix, 'Napoleon' is doing far better than expected for a historical epic catering to older adults. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer From ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The ...

Napoleon: The Director’s Cut (now on Apple TV+) very much warrants the following tagline: Now With More Beheadings! When Ridley Scott’s Napoleon debuted during the 2023 holiday corridor, the ...

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte stormed across Europe, swallowing up territory for his French Empire and challenging the supremacy of Britain on the seas. From 1804 to 1814, the Napoleonic ...

Mr. Mazower is a professor of history at Columbia. “History,” the essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote in 1840, “is the biography of great men” — and of these Napoleon, whom Carlyle described ...