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The Northman
A young Viking prince embarks on a quest to avenge his father’s murder.
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What we think
Eggers and Sjón have taken what is ultimately a straightforward revenge plot and injected it with humour, eccentricity and rip-roaring verve.| Read in full: The Northman film review We Love Cinema
What others think
Robert Eggers has created the Scandi noir to end all Scandi noirs.The Guardian
In the truest sense of the word, this is a spectacle: cinema as theatre, on a scale comparable to the likes of Gladiator or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.Little White Lies
That the violent heroics of men are ultimately the actions of deluded beasts, intoxicated by fairytales of honor and duty, is an evergreen proposition, and kudos to a film that manages to convey these sentiments while simultaneously stoking the fairytale so viscerally.Sight and Sound
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