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The Royal Hotel

R
Movie
2023
1h 31m
English
Drama, Thriller
After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
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Directed By: Kitty Green

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Jordyep says...
one year ago
Competently made, but its discussion of gender politics feels disingenuous and unbalanced. The movie tries to get away with how it depicts male behavior by setting the movie in the Australian outback, but the major leaps it asks for still ring to me as false. There’s nothing wrong with the dialogue or acting, it’s entirely the fault of the direction and story. For what it’s trying to do, all of the characters are simply too one dimensional. That could work if you throw in a layer of artifice, like _Barbie_ for example; however it stretches believability with this more realistic, grounded tone. As a result, a lot of of the (implied) tension didn’t really resonate with me either once it decides to go full thriller mode. Again, it’s not a terrible film, but it reeks of the wrong kind of feminism. 4.5/10
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tempestwood says...
one year ago
Grimy realistic tale set in the Aussie outback that has a sense of foreboding and builds tension right from the start. Don’t expect an American style slasher - it’s far more subtle and sinister than that. Definitely worth the 90 minute runtime,
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hgram says...
one year ago
It's very well done, but I wish the story had more of an arc instead of just kinda... ending.
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T__a__n__k_0 says...
one year ago
This movie is a firecracker. Starts good, makes a big bang then nothing happens. The quality of the movie is excellent, good camera work, realistic dialogue, good actors but the story goes nowhere. If you are a woman who thinks that every men is a potential danger then maybe you'll see the thriller aspect of it. To me, a guy who worked at a metal pub during uni, the two main characters are exactly what they are called in the movie. This is more a movie you show to your kids to later discuss how men and women see the same situation different. As pure entertainment and an escape, it's a dud.
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Spiderkitten
5/10  9 months ago
It was a good movie, in that it was well acted and the cinematography was good. But I don't think it really hit the mark. It never really sold me on the girls being in danger, and the atmosphere didn't really feel very tense to me.

I guess they were going for remote location + drunk men = dange More
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CinemaSerf
one year ago
Canadians "Hanna" (Julia Garner) and her best mate "Liv" (Jessica Henwick) take jobs working in a remote outback bar where they are expecting to make some extra cash to fund their holiday. They arrive, though, to discover that the "Royal Hotel" is anything but royal.... It's run by the curmudgeonly More
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