Overview
- Critics and social posts after the world premiere Thursday broadly praised Hugh Jackman’s transformative lead turn and Pat Scola’s widescreen cinematography while repeatedly calling the film brutal, bleak, and at times slowly paced.
- A24 will release the R-rated film in U.S. theaters on June 19, the movie runs about two hours and three minutes and adapts a 17th-century ballad into a revisionist take on Robin Hood.
- Reviewers describe the story as a deconstruction of myth that reframes Robin Hood as an aged, morally compromised figure who confronts cycles of violence, revenge, mortality, and a search for possible redemption.
- Early coverage frames the film alongside recent ‘last-stand’ antihero tales, with multiple outlets comparing its tone to Logan and Unforgiven and noting Sarnoski’s move from Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One into intimate, harsh reinventions of genre figures.
- While critics applaud the film’s technical craft and performances, many warn that its extreme violence, dour tone and deliberate pacing make it clearly aimed at adult audiences rather than mainstream summer crowds.