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Review: ‘The Northman’ an Ambitious, but Lean Revenge Tale

The first sign that not everyone in Robert Eggers’ 10th-century Viking revenge tale “The Northman” has their priorities entirely straight comes early in the film, when the Viking king Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke) returns home to the North Atlantic kingdom of Hrafnsey after a year of fighting overseas. After trudging up…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Northman director Robert Eggers used CGI genitals because ‘no one wanted to get their bits chopped off’

Film director has explained the reasons behind some artificial nudity in new thriller

The Independent UK

Norse code: are white supremacists reading too much into The Northman?

Robert Eggers’ Viking blockbuster has already been hailed by white nationalists keen to exploit European mythology. Can Hollywood tell historical tales without unwittingly appealing to toxic ideologies?

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A Viking Epic to Conquer Them All in ‘The Northman’

Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember. Some of his earliest memories are from Oland, a Swedish island on the Baltic Sea, where his great-grandfather built a home many years ago. His grandfather would regale him with tales of Viking history while walking…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A Viking epic to conquer them all in 'The Northman’

Alexander Skarsgård has been dreaming about Vikings for as long as he can remember

The Independent UK

‘The Northman’ review: Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman star in a wild beast of a Viking saga

In 1982, “Conan the Barbarian” enticed audiences with a poster promising four phases of a rough man’s rough life: “Thief. Warrior. Gladiator. King.”

Chicago Tribune

The Northman director Robert Eggers calls the film ‘the most painful experience of my life’

“What’s more elemental than a naked swordfight on top of a volcano?”

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‘The Northman’: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman get fierce in a boldly bloody Viking saga

Epic holds our attention with unforgettable visuals and the sheer, raw audacity of its premise.

Chicago Sun-Times

Morning mail: aged care staffing crisis, 2022 Covid death toll double previous years, Belinda Giblin’s prized belongings

Wednesday: Home care services for elderly unable to operate in some areas. Plus: the Australian sports chasing the US dream

The Guardian - AU

The Witch: Robert Eggers’ folk horror debut worms its way under your skin

As The Northman arrives in cinemas, Eggers’ first feature – which also introduced Anya Taylor-Joy to audiences – values dread over cheap jump scares

The Guardian - AU

Movie review: Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’ is a violent feast for the senses

You never would accuse Robert Eggers of being just another filmmaker.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: Viking tale 'The Northman' is Robert Eggers' best film yet

Director Robert Eggers brings the Viking epic back to the big screen in a big, bold and bloody way with “The Northman,” starring Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard in a new retelling of the myth of Amleth, the Scandinavian legend that inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Eggers, who made a splash with his…

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'The Northman' review: Its steel is strong, but hammered poorly into blockbuster mold

At the end of Robert Eggers' first movie, 2015's "The Witch," Anya Taylor-Joy's character joins an eerie group of witches in the woods and — in a shocking and subversive moment — lifts off into the air, free from gender roles and gravity.

Tribune News Service

Who is in The Northman cast and what is the action movie about?

Robert Eggers’ new film features big names like Alexander Skarsgård and Nicole Kidman in the cast

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The Guardian - UK

The Northman review – Robert Eggers’s ambitious, preposterous Viking epic

Understatement is not on the menu as Alexander Skarsgård scorches through a mission of bloody vengeance in this oddly plodding Scandi saga

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #30: It’s time for Hollywood to bring back the erotic thriller

In this week’s newsletter: the genre that brought us Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction is all but dead – surely it’s due a progressive, modern day comeback?

The Independent UK

The Northman review roundup: What the critics are saying about Robert Eggers’ bloody viking epic

‘History comes thundering back to life in “The Northman”, in a chorus of howls, farts, and belches,’ Clarisse Loughrey wrote

The Independent UK

The Northman review: A Viking epic of thick, blood-red brutality

Robert Eggers directs a film of hard-bitten masculinity, about a time in history when ‘bros being bros’ meant fighting to the death at the foot of an erupting volcano

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'The Northman' review: Robert Eggers levels up with a primal, poetic Viking epic

Robert Eggers' historical fantasy-epic stars a ferocious Alexander Skarsgard as a Viking berserker on a path of vengeance.

The Guardian - UK

The Northman review – Robert Eggers’ brutal vision of vengeance and violence

Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Björk and Anya Taylor-Joy feature in a mesmerisingly outrageous take on the Norse myth that inspired Hamlet

Evening Standard

The Northman movie review: this non-macho fight fest will set the world on fire

Robert Eggers’ new movie is the ultra-violent Viking saga you never knew you needed

The Guardian - UK

The Northman director Robert Eggers: ‘I’m shocked I made such a macho movie’

The American director of arthouse hits The Witch and The Lighthouse on how he came to create The Northman, a blood-soaked Viking blockbuster starring Alexander Skarsgård

The Independent UK

The Northman: Poster for Robert Eggers’ viking drama put up on New York subway without film’s title

Viral tweet shows large posters with actors’ names and film’s tagline, but no film title

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