The Conversation

Robin Hood was often far more violent than modern legend – but he wasn’t the most extreme medieval outlaw

Two deaths related to Robin Hood have put the fictional medieval outlaw in the news recently. The release of The Death of Robin Hood featuring Hugh Jackman as the titular hero has coincided with the ...
CNN

Hunting a ghost through Sherwood Forest: On the elusive trail of the real Robin Hood

For the past 30 years, Ade Andrews has learned the secret of time travel: stepping into Sherwood Forest and finding himself in the Middle Ages. The mythical home of Robin Hood hit the headlines last ...
Los Angeles Times

Dour and dull, ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ steals our time to give to the gloom

Over eons of mythmaking, the 13th century bandit Robin Hood has evolved from a scamp adored by King Henry VIII to a symbol of sticking it to the rich. He’s been called a thief, a benefactor, a ...
Decider

Is Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Movie Streaming on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video?

Get ready for some not-so-merry adventures with The Death of Robin Hood, a new dark twist on the legendary anti-hero of English folklore. You won’t see any smiling cartoon foxes in this movie! Written ...
Hartford Courant

Movie Review: ‘The Death of Robin Hood’ drains the blood, and life, out of an old English legend

In the opening moments of Michael Sarnoski’s “The Death of Robin Hood,” Hugh Jackman’s Robin shelters on a cold and desolate peatland. A young attacker (Jade Croot) emerges from the dark emptiness ...
The New York Times

‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Not a Merry Band

A darkly revisionist take on the medieval outlaw asks who gets to craft the heroic legends. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn ...
The Atlantic

A Robin Hood You May Not Want to Root For

What if you took a folk figure or a popular comic-book character—someone beloved enough to be the star of, say, a Disney cartoon—and made a film that cast them in a dark, even antiheroic light? Call ...
The Conversation

Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood as wicked – it’s a badly timed take on the hero of the poor

Robin Hood plays should be banned, wrote an advisor to King Henry VIII in 1536 – they were, he argued, teaching the public how to defy the king’s officers. It was basically the medieval equivalent of ...
IGN

The Death of Robin Hood Review

The Death of Robin Hood will be released in theaters on June 19. The story draws its inspiration from the medieval ballad A Gest of Robyn Hode, the last section of which is titled “Death of Robin Hood ...
TheWrap

‘The Death of Robin Hood’ Review: Hugh Jackman Deconstructs a Superhero, Again, and It Works, Again

When most people think of Robin Hood, they picture Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner, Cary Elwes or that weirdly sexy animated fox. They were hunky heroes, the whole lot of them, whether their films were ...