The Death of Robin Hood
Directed by Michael Sarnoski · Hugh Jackman, Jodie Comer, Bill Skarsgard
Adventure Drama · 2026-06-19
“A24 hands Hugh Jackman a bow, a death wish, and Logan's exact emotional blueprint, then dares you to notice.”
Michael Sarnoski points his slow, gorgeous, dread-soaked style at the Robin Hood myth and comes back with a film about an old killer hunted by the people he robbed. Hugh Jackman is magnetic as a Robin long past heroism, all viciousness and buried guilt, and Jodie Comer is quietly excellent as the abbess who becomes his conscience. It looks extraordinary, every frame a damp medieval oil painting.
The problem is you have seen this exact movie, and it had claws. A broken, violent man, way past his prime, hunted to the end, forced to protect a younger soul and find redemption in the dirt. The Death of Robin Hood is so structurally identical to Logan that you keep waiting for someone to say the word mutant. Sarnoski is too talented for this to be lazy, but it is a deconstruction that leans hard on a blueprint we already memorised in 2017.
When it works, it really works, the violence has weight, the silences land, and Jackman gives the kind of performance that makes you forgive the familiarity. But a myth deconstruction should leave you somewhere new, and this one keeps arriving at a destination another movie reached first. Stunning to look at. Slightly haunted by a better-known ghost.
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Hugh Jackman delivers a career-recalibrating performance, vicious and mournful in equal measure.
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Michael Sarnoski's direction is patient and atmospheric, every frame composed like a painting.
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Jodie Comer grounds the film as a stoic, watchful abbess.
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The violence carries real weight and consequence instead of empty spectacle.
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The structure is a near beat-for-beat echo of Logan, undercutting its own surprises.
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The deliberate pacing tips from meditative into sluggish in the middle stretch.
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The myth deconstruction promises reinvention but keeps landing on familiar ground.
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Supporting characters orbit Jackman without enough life of their own.
Anyone who loved the elegiac mood of Logan and wants a beautifully grim A24 spin on a legend they thought they knew.
Anyone expecting a swashbuckling Robin Hood adventure, or allergic to slow cinema that wears its influences on its sleeve.
A24 sold this on Hugh Jackman's haunted face and a single bowstring drawn in the dark, which is gorgeous and also carefully hides that the trailer is basically the Logan teaser in a cloak. Smart marketing. The kind that lets you discover the resemblance only after you have bought the ticket.
Your website, CV, or whatever you made. I'll roast that too.
A full teardown from €2,99. No mercy.