Not Even Emma Stone Could Save This Snooze Fest

Rating: 1/10 (27 December 2018)

I saw The Favourite because (a) Emma Stone is in it, and (b) it was highly reviewed on iMDB. My current hypothesis is that the Russians have hijacked the iMDB site, and heavily upvoted this movie in an attempt to lure the American public to see it, and bore us into a mind-numbed complacency.
This two-hour snoozefest explores in excruciating detail the interplay between three wretched women, each of who is vying to grab or hold on to power. It sets the record for the slowest-moving, most tedious power plays in movie history -- and, amazingly, the payoff is that nothing is resolved in the end! And in case you could possibly have missed the ham-handed symbolism, the rabbits and slow-motion dancing naked eunich represent the poor working class whose souls are crushed under the feet of the bourgeoisie, who are focused on their own selfish whims.
I've seen many movies that show that the abuse of power is evil and damaging. The only additional lesson from this film is that it can also be boring.