Film reviews: Liberty, equality, insecurity – tense Napoleon will keep you doubting to the end

Since the dawn of cinema Napoleon has been a figure of fascination for filmmakers. In 1927, French director Abel Gance gathered an actual army of tens of thousands to mount his mammoth silent biopic, which ran for five-and-a-half hours but still only managed to bring audiences to the point where his subject first invaded Italy. Having completed the arduous production of 2001: A Space Odyssey in the mid-1960s, Stanley Kubrick announced he had cast Jack ...