Review: The Favourite
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BRUNCH
4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
It’s Oscars season and we’re reviewing the Academy’s big category picks. ‘The Favourite’ (starring Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz) is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and has nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Stone and Weisz), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and more.
Synopsis:
In the early 18th century, England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne, and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead, while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing, and Abigail sees a chance to return to her aristocratic roots.
We put the movie through our critically acclaimed rating system, which grades based on four categories:
1. Did we like it?
2. How did everyone look?
3. Will we steal stuff from it?
4. Is it problematic?
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| 0:00.0 | Did we like it? |
| 0:04.7 | And how did everyone look? |
| 0:08.7 | Always stealing stuff from it is a problem that it gets brunch. |
| 0:13.5 | Movie reviews. |
| 0:16.0 | The favorite is a movie about how we would describe the favorite in relation to all of the movies that came out in 2018. |
| 0:27.3 | Because for me and you, pal, it was the favorite. |
| 0:33.9 | Nice. |
| 0:34.8 | Rad. |
| 0:36.8 | How did you like it? Four out of four. You gave it a four out of four so i'm a big uh |
| 0:42.5 | i have some of the like leave room for ice cream stuff so i see this is annoying so you're |
| 0:49.2 | giving it a four point straight out of four i don't know if you liked it more than i did though |
| 0:53.0 | but i'm not a give you know what what, though? I think I gave Get Out 4 out 4 out of 4. I think I broke my... It was one of those movies where I walked out of the theater, and I saw it first, not to brag, but I walked out of the theater, immediately broke out my phone, texted you in all caps. Fucking amazing. Got to go see it. |
| 1:12.1 | Did you see it for me? Yes, I did. Randy saw before both of us. Yes. So he polluted our minds. Randy texted us and said, have you seen the favorite yet? And I got the text message. I probably lied. and say, |
| 1:07.1 | I was walking |
| 1:07.7 | out of me. |
| 1:08.0 | Yep. |
| 1:08.5 | What'd you think? |
| 1:09.3 | I thought the same. |
| 1:10.3 | I'll give it a 3.9. |
| 1:11.5 | I was going to give it a 3.8, |
| 1:12.9 | but I'm annoyed |
| 1:13.9 | that you get to, |
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