"This is intimate, culturally rich storytelling on a brutally epic scale."
★★★★★ Hanna Flint, Empire

"A delightfully offbeat epic. No guts, no glory!"
★★★★★ Hannah Strong, Little White Lies

"Robert Eggers blood-soaked Viking epic isnt just the film of the year so far its a widescreen rallying cry for cinema in the age of streaming"
★★★★★ Phillip De Semlyen, Time Out

"All hail an egg-head whose non-macho masterpiece is hopefully about to set the world on fire."
★★★★★ Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard

"It’s entirely outrageous, with some epic visions of the flaring cosmos. I couldn’t look away."
★★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

"I call upon Odin: may The Northman make a billion dollars."
★★★★★ Clarisse Loughrey, Independent (UK)