“The Royal Hotel” is a horror movie but don’t expect any jump-cuts, scary masks or serial killers. It’s more like the horror that dawns on a frog when it realizes it is being boiled aliv ...

The Royal Hotel is now playing in theaters. This review is part of our coverage of the 2023 BFI London Film Festival. There’s plenty to like about men. The tall ones are fantastic for getting ...

Two young women struggle to handle the obstreperous patrons of a remote Australian pub in this coolly calibrated thriller. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

She’s thought everything out, and planned it so that every scene in “The Royal Hotel” is as gripping as it is pointed. The film grabs us from the get-go, as soon as the opening sequence ...

By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic For her second narrative feature, and her first film set and filmed in her native Australia, Green was inspired by the 2016 documentary Hotel ...

The decor is cheap: liquor bottles and dead snakes pickled in jars. Kitty Green’s queasily gripping “The Royal Hotel” is set in a location neither regal nor much of a hotel. But if the ...