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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 27 Apr 2022

Eggers recreated, with obsessive accuracy, the world of the medievals in order to lower us into a myth that feels primordial and strange, as…

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By Karen Gordon (174) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 25 Apr 2022

It is a wild and trippy ride that mixes “reality,” with sequences that dip into the mystical world of the Vikings, and back out again…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 25 Apr 2022

The Northman is gripping cinema of the sort that we get too little of today, when too often a director’s vision is diluted by box office…

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By Natalia Keogan (119) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 Apr 2022

Forged in flame and fury, Robert Eggers’ The Northman is an exquisite tale of violent vengeance that takes no prisoners…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 25 Apr 2022

The Northman, whether you approach it as legitimate folklore or as a testosterone-fueled Saturday-afternoon lark, speaks to the 10-year-old…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 25 Apr 2022

It’s an oft-stunning visual feast and an entertaining peek into Eggers’ instincts as a choreographer not only of historical detail but…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 25 Apr 2022

At 137 minutes, The Northman can feel ponderously crammed with both mystic visions (however hauntingly rendered) and Mel Gibson–grade sadistic…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 25 Apr 2022

It’s a gutsy piece of work, not only in the reach of its ambition but also in its willingness to show us actual guts…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 25 Apr 2022

Instead of the roots of Shakespeare’s play, The Northman merely serves up its raw material both half-baked and overcooked…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 24 Apr 2022

The Northman doesn’t invite its viewers into its world, but instead dares them to try to catch up…

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By Lorry Kikta (141) for Film Threat (5,156) on 23 Apr 2022

Eggers immerses us in the world of Norse mythology, where Odin reigns supreme and Valkyries carry you to Valhalla if you die in battle…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 22 Apr 2022

Eggers’s action sequences are swift and brutal, filled with the crunch of life extinguished and tossed into the bone pile of time…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 22 Apr 2022

Loving it is not the issue, of course—the level of amputating, eviscerating, decapitating violence transcends good nasty fun…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 22 Apr 2022

The final act of The Northman is as violent and intense as a story that inspired Hamlet should be, but all the gore and swordplay would leave…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 21 Apr 2022

The mythic simplicity is part of the point of The Northman, but the movie’s single-minded protagonist and its elemental conflicts verge closer…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Apr 2022

What’s perhaps most impressive about The Northman is that it hurtles through 136 minutes of musclebound, shaggy-maned mayhem without a whisper…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 21 Apr 2022

The Northman throws a few wrinkles into its vengeance story, but doesn’t offer up much food for thought…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 21 Apr 2022

Director/co-writer Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse) has sought to make the definitive Viking movie, and while the film issues a guttural cry…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 21 Apr 2022

Everything feels strange, savage, implacably other: royalty alongside slavery, formality prized yet pity nowhere to be found…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Apr 2022

Like his memorable period freakouts “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse,” though on a vastly more ambitious scale, The Northman is both…

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