Although it has admirable intent and is overall well done, The Royal Hotel is a surface-level exploration of toxic masculinity and the constant threat women must always endure. However, frankly, setting it at a remote bar with zero women near a roughneck mining camp in middle-of-nowhere Australia (a triumvirate of toxic masculinity) undercuts the message a bit. Look, the things that happen to Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are despicable, but…if an innocent person willfully walks into a lion’s den, pokes the lion, then gets attacked, part of me wonders, “what did you think would happen?” I couldn’t move past that thought while watching.