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‘Napoleon’ saddles up Joaquin Phoenix to lead the charge in Ridley Scott’s chilly epic

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Ridley Scott’s storied career has included directing great (“Gladiator”) and not-so-great (“Kingdom of Heaven,” “The Last Duel”) period epics. “Napoleon” lands somewhere in between, a solid and sweeping version of the French leader’s war-torn life that proves too flat between the action sequences – a shiny bauble with

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