‘The Royal Hotel’ review: In this triumph of tension, check in at your peril
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Oct 24, 2023
2 minutes
In “The Royal Hotel,” director Kitty Green’s gripping, grubby Australian Outback noir, the Royal Hotel is a comically unregal place lit by the dead glare of fluorescent lights, dotted with predatory eyes lurking in the shadows.
The eyes belong to the men working for the local mining company. At this remote, two-story dump in the middle of
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