The Northman
Filmmaker Robert Eggers follows up The Witch and The Lighthouse with this Viking revenge epic set in 10th Century Iceland, following a Nordic prince seeking justice for his murdered father. Co-written by Sjón (Lambs) and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Skarsgård and Björk.
2022Rating: R16, Graphic violence, cruelty, animal cruelty & sexual material137 minsUSA, UK
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The Northman | Reviews
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Slant Magazine
The Northman doesn’t lack for blood and guts, but it doesn’t play enough in the well of the weird.
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Entertainment Weekly
The script... serves mostly as bare scaffolding for the film's ravishing vistas and flamboyant violence...
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IndieWire
All you really need to know about The Northman — a $90 million Viking revenge saga directed by Robert Eggers — is that every single minute of it feels like a $90 million Viking revenge saga directed by Robert Eggers.
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San Francisco Chronicle
With The Northman, we encounter the brilliant execution of a fairly demented vision. To see it is to think, simultaneously, “Wow” and “What were they thinking?!”
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The Telegraph
(The Northman) comes at you with whopping set-pieces and a ragged, reckless sense of structure.
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Time Out
Make it your destiny to see this blood-soaked odyssey along the edge of the world as soon as possible.
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