The Royal Hotel

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The Royal Hotel

R

2023

1h 31m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

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Critics Consensus

A chilling immersion into a place and time fraught with constant danger, The Royal Hotel reunites Kitty Green and Julia Garner to electrifying effect.

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

11/28/2023

3/5

It's no Wake in Fright, but that's hardly a criticism.

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

11/27/2023

3/5

The balance between realism and abstraction isn’t maintained quite until the end, which is effective in its way, but less than a fully convincing resolution to what has come before.

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Hanna Flint

London Evening Standard

11/06/2023

4/5

The Royal Hotel simmers with the heat of oppressive testosterone at a pub in the Australian Outback. That is, until it boils over with cathartic female rage.

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Karina Adelgaard

Womentainment

Aug 11

4/5

It’s essentially a thriller about how we should always listen to our intuition to stay safe.

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Matthew Simpson

ForReel Movie News And Reviews

07/12/2025

4/5

The Royal Hotel is a masterclass in tension-building. Green placing these characters in an inescapable place is one thing, but she is also intelligent enough to know that the scariest thing she could do is let these men be the men they are.

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Shikhar Verma

High on Films

04/10/2025

4/5

The filmmaker runs a tight ship; all her elements build up to some of the most believably tense moments you’d see in a lean thriller like this one.

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cindy

10/18/2023

Love Julia Garner!!!!!

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Ice B

10/17/2023

This movie was hard to watch, and hard to stop watching.

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Ron S

10/15/2023

It passed time. Well made film but what was the point. Character development minimalistic.

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Jaheesh

10/15/2023

Garner was pretty good. The movie was edgy and was exciting. The plot falls apart though if the hotel just hires one good bouncer with a stick. Extremely unrealistic for the sake of making a somewhat tripe point.

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Penny E

10/15/2023

Acting was superb plot was great suspenseful. Overall fantastic movie.

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Kenny

10/15/2023

Unequivocally one of the worst 15 movies Ive ever seen. Julia Garner is a fabulous actress, so how she got wrapped up in this horrible production I dont know. There is no character development, there is no discernible plot and it is just an overall horrible film.

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Synopsis

Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Director: Kitty Green
Producer: Iain Canning, Kath Shelper, Emile Sherman, Liz Watts
Screenwriter: Kitty Green, Oscar Redding, Kitty Green, Oscar Redding
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: See-Saw Films, Scarlett Pictures, Fulcrum Media Finance
Rating: R (Sexual Content/Nudity|Language Throughout)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 6, 2023, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $780.3K
Runtime: 1h 31m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1