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    Movie review: Joaquin Phoenix meets his Waterloo in 'Napoleon'

    The literal French definition of “tour de force,” an admiring noun that gets thrown around a lot in English, translates as “feat of strength.” Therefore I don’t get it. I don’t get why Joaquin Phoenix’s take on Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and frequent film subject, might inspire anyone to characterize the results as a tour de anything, except a feat of sustained, occasionally droll ...
    by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Nov 20, 2023 3 minutes
    "Napoleon," starring Joaquin Phoenix, premieres in theaters around the world on Wednesday.

    The literal French definition of “tour de force,” an admiring noun that gets thrown around a lot in English, translates as “feat of strength.”

    Therefore I don’t get it. I don’t get why Joaquin Phoenix’s take on Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and frequent film subject, might inspire anyone to characterize the results as a tour de anything, except a feat of sustained, occasionally droll indecision.

    The same goes for director Ridley Scott’s middling epic “Napoleon.” “Middling” and “epic” are not words you want to see together, but there you

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