The Northman

"(Skarsgård) sorely lacks the charisma to carry a movie of this scale..."

"It’s entirely outrageous... I couldn’t look away."

"Ferociously elemental, energized and unhinged."

"Unmissable."

"The Northman doesn’t lack for blood and guts, but it doesn’t play enough in the well of the weird."

"The script... serves mostly as bare scaffolding for the film's ravishing vistas and flamboyant violence..."

"All you really need to know about The Northman — a $90 million Viking revenge saga directed by Robert Eggers — is that every single minute of it feels like a $90 million Viking revenge saga directed by Robert Eggers."

"I call upon Odin: may The Northman make a billion dollars."

"With The Northman, we encounter the brilliant execution of a fairly demented vision. To see it is to think, simultaneously, “Wow” and “What were they thinking?!”"

"It feels compromised, but the great stuff outweighs the not-so-great stuff."

"A one-note fiasco... from a gifted film-maker who should have known better."

"(The Northman) comes at you with whopping set-pieces and a ragged, reckless sense of structure."

"Make it your destiny to see this blood-soaked odyssey along the edge of the world as soon as possible."

"A delightfully offbeat epic."

"The kind of movie where even the mud has rage..."

"(This) gruesome Viking epic bustles with intelligence and invention."

"A cinematic saga worthy of the ancestors."

"Robert Eggers’ expansive and haunting Viking epic might be his best film yet..."