"Napoléon is the kind of generation-defining milestone we may never see again. It’s appropriate that it was released the same year as The Jazz Singer, the film that heralded the arrival of the much-prophesied sound era, because Napoléon feels like the natural culmination for this stage of the medium’s development. Napoléon is a bombastic celebration of everything film is capable of, reveling in the overblown excess and expressionist landscapes that silent cinema allowed for before talkies ushered in a new age of dreary old realism...."
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