Review of The Northman (2022) by Mark Feeney for Boston Globe — 21 Apr 2022
Everything feels strange, savage, implacably other: royalty alongside slavery, formality prized yet pity nowhere to be found. The Northman seems so foreign, as it should. Yet what Eggers never forgets, and this does almost as much as his talent does to make his film so frequently compelling, is that what to the characters is mundane is to us unreal — and vice versa.
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This review of The Northman (2022) was written by Mark Feeney and published by Boston Globe on 21 Apr 2022.
The Northman has generally received positive reviews.
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