Olivia Colman's performance is so volcanically great; "The Favourite" is strange enough and original enough and daring enough to please his longtime fans, while hopefully proselytizing a legion of new ones
it's a perfectly cut diamond of a movie -- a finely executed, coldly entertaining entry in the genre of savage misanthropic baroque costume drama from director Yorgos Lanthimos
all three members of the main trio are at their best, but it's Colman who most deserves a coronation...she brings depth and dimension to a character who so easily could have been an unsympathetic joke
a wicked delight; fabulously entertaining tragicomedy, The Favourite, is a juicy power tangle connecting three women in the royal court of early 18th century England, played by a divine trio that bounces off one another with obvious relish
