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April 22, 2022

At the Movies: ‘The Northman' an ambitious, but lean revenge tale

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer



The first sign that not everyone in Robert Eggers’ 10th-century Viking revenge tale “The Northman” has their priorities entirely straight comes early in the film, when the Viking king Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke) returns home to the North Atlantic kingdom of Hrafnsey after a year of fighting overseas.


 
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