By Becky Ferreira As Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” opens ... up in British hands after the French hold on Egypt collapsed in 1801. By then, Napoleon had returned to France.

Ridley Scott — who celebrated his 85th birthday ... Going by this charming demystification of Napoleon’s time in Egypt by historical novelist Shannon Selin, Scott and Scarpa are conflating ...

Entertainment Critic Ridley Scott treats battlefields ... social reforms that Napoleon instituted but he captures a sense of his relentless drive, and in a fantastic Egypt scene in which he ...

Ridley Scott is set to release "Napoleon," an historical war epic about ... to rise through further successful military campaigns in Egypt and elsewhere. His triumphs pave the way for him ...

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is another of his lavishly produced ... the siege at Toulon, the excursion into Egypt, the battle of Austerlitz, plus sub-Tolstoy War and Peace nuggets.

Watching director Ridley Scott’s new historical epic ... she’s taken a lover. When Napoleon’s army is on the march in Egypt, he hears that Josephine is cheating on him and decides to go ...

At brief, introspective moments in Ridley Scott's pyrotechnics ... blowing up the pyramids in Egypt — neither of which happened. Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Napoleon, is also 14 years older ...

We see bits of his campaign in Egypt, his exile from France ... what we’ve all been watching. Ironically, Napoleon may just be Ridley Scott’s Waterloo. Where’s It Playing?

The latest eruption of controversy has been triggered by Ridley Scott ... ill-fated invasion of Egypt in 1798. At least, Scott does not propagate the canard that Napoleon’s quest for glory ...

Unfortunately, this Ridley Scott epic about Napoleon Bonaparte does, in fact, have quite a lot to do with France, and as the invasion of Russia gives way to Napoleon’s divorce and subsequent ...