The Royal Hotel

Name: The Royal Hotel
Genre: Thriller
Released: October 6, 2023
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Alex Malone, Bree Bain, Daniel Henshall, Dylan River, Herbert Nordrum

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Neon | Release Date: October 6, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Alex Malone, Bree Bain, Daniel Henshall, Dylan River, Herbert Nordrum, Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Jessica Henwick, Julia Garner, Kate Cheel, Keylan Devine-Ingerson, Nick Slater, Toby Wallace, Ursula Yovich

Summary: Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to DownAmericans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.… Expand

Director: Kitty Green

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Nov 6, 2023

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

Tomris Laffly

Sep 8, 2023

The most brilliant aspect of the script, penned jointly by Green and Oscar Redding, is its flair with sketching out the ups and downs of Hanna and Liv’s friendship. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Oct 5, 2023

[Green's] new film The Royal Hotel could be summed up as Smile More: The Movie, which grounds a clash between two globe-separated cultures in old-time misogynist tropes that know no geographic borders. Like The Assistant, the movie revolves around women in the presence of atmospheric male domination. Gendered maltreatment is in the very air they breathe. Read full review

Esther Zuckerman

Sep 8, 2023

Green deals in the unexplicit, and those questions are the engine of the film. Read full review

Slashfilm Barry Levitt

Sep 19, 2023

As the horrors of The Royal Hotel unfold, the film shifts from a terse thriller into a full-on horror, assisted by appropriately and effectively eerie cinematography from Michael Latham. Read full review

Richard Whittaker

Oct 4, 2023

Unfortunately, The Royal Hotel ultimately lacks the subtle ambiguity about complicity and power that made The Assistant so fascinating. Instead, it's a feel-good ending that borders on trite, and even oddly carries a whiff of cultural imperialism. Read full review

Rex Reed

Oct 10, 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. Read full review

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