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Napoleon

Where: AppleTV+
What: Movie, 158 mins.
When: Now
Genre: Historical drama
Rating: NNNN (out of 5)
Why you should watch: Ridley Scott’s Napoleon finally follows 2023’s other epic film releases, Oppenheimer and Flowers of the Killer Moon, onto streamers joining its Apple-produced sibling, Martin Scorsese’s Killer Moon, on AppleTV+. Of the three, Napoleon is the better film. Its storytelling is clearer and its narrative more compelling than the other somewhat bloated and slow-moving pictures. Joaquin Phoenix is superb as the empire-craving self-appointed emperor and Vanessa Kirby is icily, excellent as his eventually rejected wife, Josephine. The couple’s twisted relationship is the kind of satisfying “secondary” story missing from the other two films.

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