The Royal Hotel

Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel — starring the superb Julia Garner — is a brilliantly unsettling modern thriller that uses the framework of outback noir to dissect misogyny, power and the casual menace lurking beneath “blokey” hospitality culture. Adapted from shocking real events, the film follows two backpackers taking bar work in a remote Australian mining town, where friendliness gradually curdles into intimidation and threat. Critics praised its razor-wire tension, dark humour and icy precision, with Garner delivering a performance of extraordinary restraint and intelligence. At once gripping entertainment and sharp social satire, The Royal Hotel skewers performative masculinity, alcohol-soaked bravado and the way predatory behaviour is normalised as “just a joke” — making it one of the most provocative and fiercely discussed films of recent years.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-royal-hotel-movie-review-2023

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