Like Hamlet, but wish the Danish prince were a little more decisively murderous? Then you’ll love The Northman, the latest film from the meticulous historical craftsman Robert Eggers. The movie, Richard Lawson writes in his review, “trades the courtly, clever intrigue of Shakespeare’s day for the blood and mud and fire of Amleth’s Viking age,” telling the story that inspired the Bard’s most enduring play: the tale of Amleth, a Viking prince who seeks vengeance on his traitorous uncle. Alexander Skarsgård is formidable in the role, “a pained and jilted son who only wants things settled—or, really, set back to how they were—so that the restlessness within him, the storm of his angst and conflicted duty, may finally go quiet. Skarsgård compellingly renders that mettle and that weariness; he makes us viscerally feel the exhausting journey of the film.“
Elsewhere in HWD, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn premiere their Watergate drama, Gaslit; F. Murray Abraham exitsMythic Quest; Soo Hugh opens up about bringing the best-selling novel Pachinko to life; and living legend Liza Minnelliis apparently not very happy with the Academy.
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