It's a Lanthimos movie you can watch with your non-film-nerd relatives. Moreover, in a year where most Oscar season releases crashed and burned, The Favourite was a leggy sleeper. Ditto The Hate U Give ($29 million domestic), On the Basis of Sex ($24m), Can You Ever Forgive Me? And in that new normal, The Favourite is the ironic kinda-sorta winner in last year's Oscar season. Yes, it is deeply ironic that a movie by Yorgos Lanthimos of all people became a crowd-pleasing Oscar season sleeper hit over a number of more conventionally commercial offerings.

Source: Forbes March 04, 2019 21:00 UTC