One of the best costume dramas since 'Barry Lyndon'

Rating: 9/10 (7 January 2019)

I'd say I'm a moviefan. I don't claim to be a critic, but I can judge movies critically.
I really liked The Favourite. I saw The Killing of a Sacred Deer in cinemas about a year ago, and I really liked that movie. However, I LOVED this movie.
The cinematography is great. The colors are beautiful, and the camerawork is great. I dug the repeated cameramovement to the right. Only problem with the cinematography was that sometimes a certain lense was used, which took me out of the movie, as it wasn't used consistently.
The performances of Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz were all fantastic. Especially Colman is amazing. There is this one scene where she just stares, and you can see her eyes get a little bit wet. She also did a great job with the moments of crazyness she had. Her role is one of the best female roles of the year, together with Toni Collette in Hereditary.
The comedy was sharp and well-done. It was not in your face, and subtile enough not to make it forced. Even the men who are after Emma Stone's character, which are all comic reliefs, felt like real persons.
At some points the movie really felt like Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon: a person in the 18th century who used to be from a rich and important family which lost their title gets into the house of an important woman in England, and tries to gain power by (pretending to) fall(ing) in love with the rich female. When this person gets her trust, the same person lives a wild life, cheats on his of her husband of wife and doesn't treat the woman with power well. Even the score of the film reminded me of some of the music used in Barry Lyndon.
There are a few (minor) issues with the film, one of which I already mentioned. My biggest issue with the film is that the husband of Emma Stone's character isn't as important as he should be. They marry, she jerks him off one time and then he disappears from the movie. When she flirts with another man shen she's drunk, it wasn't clear who her husband was.
In the end is The Favourite a great movie. I would highly recommend it. If you didn't like the previous films of Yorgos Lanthimos, then you won't like this one I think, but it is worth a try. I'd give this movie a 8.8/10