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How the ‘Northman’ team pulled off that village raid and the (naked) volcano battle

Mounting a large-scale Viking epic was new territory for director Robert Eggers, whose “The Northman” opened in theaters in April. Among the film’s most ambitiously cinematic sequences are a brutal raid on a village that plays out in a single seemingly unbroken take and a jaw-dropping finale set atop an…

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‘The Northman’ review: Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman star in a wild beast of a Viking saga

In 1982, “Conan the Barbarian” enticed audiences with a poster promising four phases of a rough man’s rough life: “Thief. Warrior. Gladiator. King.”

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Movie review: Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’ is a violent feast for the senses

You never would accuse Robert Eggers of being just another filmmaker.

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Movie review: Viking tale 'The Northman' is Robert Eggers' best film yet

Director Robert Eggers brings the Viking epic back to the big screen in a big, bold and bloody way with “The Northman,” starring Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgard in a new retelling of the myth of Amleth, the Scandinavian legend that inspired Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Eggers, who made a splash with his…

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'The Northman' review: Its steel is strong, but hammered poorly into blockbuster mold

At the end of Robert Eggers' first movie, 2015's "The Witch," Anya Taylor-Joy's character joins an eerie group of witches in the woods and — in a shocking and subversive moment — lifts off into the air, free from gender roles and gravity.

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Fights, frights and delayed flights... hell is other people at Heathrow

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that “hell is other people”. Had he been alive yesterday, he would have been more specific — truly hell is other people trapped in the baggage hall at Heathrow. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The hellscape actually began a week before that when a perfect storm…

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