Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: The Northman continues to show Robert Eggers’ talents as a filmmaker, giving us an exceptionally epic Viking drama. A revenge tale centered around Norse mythology that can be forgiven for how simple this is; its brutal action, striking visuals, and performances kept me on edge.
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: The Northman’ is a brutal, shocking, epic masterpiece
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: while the film’s craft is exemplary and its drama brutal, “The Northman” is not as memorable a film as Eggers’ prior two. This critic recalls Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2009 “Valhalla Rising” more fondly.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: The Northman is a film that had me from frame one, and never let me out of its grasp until the very end. It works because it’s smart about how it tells its story, and it offers a subtle yet very critical eye at how these stories are usually told.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: This epic Viking drama isn’t deep, but it sure looks good.
- Lee Jutton @ Film Inquiry
- Excerpt: The third feature film directed by Robert Eggers (following The Witch and The Lighthouse), The Northman violently embraces all of the hallucinatory magic and rampant bloodshed of Scandinavian lore in bringing Amleth’s story to the screen.
- Jeremy Kibler @ Phindie
- Excerpt: Weighty and unforgiving but also visually arresting and often hypnotic, “The Northman” pummels and immerses you.
- [New] | Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: Sometimes the journey is better than the destination and The Northman is a prime example of that. While the violence and gore might not be for everyone the film feels like watching a raw and untethered work of art.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: Execution, performance, and art direction are all unparalleled, but the whole simply proves a solid familial melodrama in the end. They can’t all be “great.”
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Josh Thayer (formerly Taylor) @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: The fantastical tale told in The Northman feels like it’s being spun by a Viking poet sitting near a fire, a snowstorm raging all around him.
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Lens
- Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: What Eggers has done with this film is to develop an intense story of revenge, without hiding how barbaric and bloody and brutal life was at that time for these people.
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