Review: 'The Northman' Deserves More Than Cult Classic Status
WiredIn a recent interview, the director Robert Eggers reflected on the experience of helming his first potential blockbuster. Eggers’ last film, The Lighthouse, cost a fraction of The Northman’s budget and wouldn't have lost much of its power if he'd staged it all in one room. On the studio side, this fact, coupled with Eggers’ previous release featuring a healthy dose of art-house tentacle masturbation, has meant the film has drawn frantic marketing comparing it to much older successes in its genre. Posters have come adorned with the take “this generation’s Gladiator”; in a New Yorker interview, Eggers invoked Braveheart. As such, The Northman, then, is more gore than Thor, an arty offering that’ll likely attain cult classic status before it gets boffo box office.
History of this topic
A Viking epic to conquer them all in ‘The Northman’
Associated Press
Review: Robert Eggers’ mighty Viking epic ‘The Northman’ puts the art before the Norse
LA Times
The Northman review: A Viking epic of thick, blood-red brutality
The Independent
The Northman review roundup: What the critics are saying about Robert Eggers’ bloody viking epic
The Independent
Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla – why we've got the Vikings wrong
BBCDiscover Related
)
