The Northman -

Have you seen The Northman ? Did you think it was a masterpiece or an over-indulgent mess? Let me know in the comments below. Just don’t mention the horned helmets.

If you hated the slow-burn ambiguity of The Lighthouse , run away. If you thought Braveheart was too polite, buy a ticket. The Northman

In a world of sanitized Marvel quips and CGI armies, The Northman feels like a slap in the face from a frozen corpse. It reminds us that cinema can be dangerous, spiritual, and utterly insane. Have you seen The Northman

This is not a movie you simply watch . This is a movie you survive . Just don’t mention the horned helmets

Robert Eggers, the madman who brought us the suffocating dread of The Witch and the hallucinatory madness of The Lighthouse , has done the unthinkable. He has taken a $90 million budget, a cast full of A-listers, and a story as old as time (literally Hamlet , which borrowed from the same Norse legend), and turned it into a brutal, psychedelic, howling-at-the-moon revenge saga.