Jessica Henwick and Julia Garner make a powerful duo in the highly praised thriller The Royal Hotel, which has landed on Netflix.
Released in October 2023, The Royal Hotel is a mystery thriller that has become a huge hit with viewers, earning an impressive 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
What is The Royal Hotel About?
Directed by Kitty Green, the film follows Americans Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Henwick), best friends who are backpacking in Australia.
Hanna takes a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town.
What starts as an introduction to Down Under drinking culture soon turns dark as Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation.
Who is in the cast for The Royal Hotel?
Julia Garner is proving to be a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood, and her impressive roster of hit movies and TV shows highlights just how talented she is. From Ozark to Weapon and Sin City, her versatility continues to shine.
Meanwhile, Jessica Henwick is known for her roles in Game of Thrones, The Matrix Resurrections, and Love and Monsters.
Apart from Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick, The Royal Hotel also features Hugo Weaving, along with actors like Toby Wallace and James Frecheville.
Critics Reviews
Critics have described The Royal Hotel as a chilling thriller, with some calling it an uncomfortably intense watch.
Meanwhile, others have praised the performances of the likes of Julie Garner and Jessica Henwick.
On Rotten Tomatoes, one reviewer said, “A chilling immersion into a place and time fraught with constant danger, The Royal Hotel reunites Kitty Green and Julia Garner to electrifying effect.”
“The Royal Hotel is uncommonly powerful. Kitty Green has made a perfect socially conscious thriller for the #MeToo era. It’s one of the year’s best films,” a second critic wrote.
A third commented,”The Royal Hotel is a sharp and intense slow-burning thriller that never seems to reach a full boil. Kitty Green methodically unravels the complex dynamics of gender and power and challenges our expectations.”
The Royal Hotel premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2023.
It was later shown at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2023. The film was released in the United States by Neon on October 6, 2023, and in Australia by Transmission Films on November 23, 2023.
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