Robin Hood
Lionsgate | Release Date: November 21, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanNov 20, 2018
Robin Hood is no classic, but if it sometimes seems like it’s trying to be “Baz Luhrmann’s Robin Hood,” more power to it. The movie is a diverting live-wire lark — one that, for my money, gets closer to the spirit of what Robin Hood is about than the logy 1991 Kevin Costner version or the dismal 2010 Russell Crowe version. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshNov 23, 2018
While it plays fast and loose with loaded political iconography, this Robin Hood brings a whole new dimension to this age-old tale. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonNov 21, 2018
Robin Hood’s shameless silliness only takes it so far, as the film is frequently undermined by Otto Bathurst’s wobbly direction. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzNov 21, 2018
You could build a suspension bridge over the gap between what Robin Hood could have been and what it is. Its hero is credible as a man who wants to rob from the rich and give to the poor, but the storytelling is so impoverished that the message can't stick. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Chandler LevackNov 20, 2018
Well, the Hood would never stand for it and neither should you. Defy authority and watch this movie on a plane instead. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Nov 20, 2018
Say this and little else for the new Robin Hood movie: It’s less of a self-serious slog than the last Robin Hood movie. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMichael OrdoñaNov 20, 2018
The action is violent and improbable but not staged with particular pizazz. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMeredith GoldsteinNov 20, 2018
Some of the film is slow. Some of it is silly. Read full review
50
Screen DailySarah WardNov 20, 2018
Grimly upbeat rather than merry, and relentless rather than frenetic, the film’s gritty zest is splashed across the screen with momentum, but also to the point of overuse. It serves a late heist set piece well, yet wears thin in a sea of training, thieving and fighting montages elsewhere. Read full review
50
Entertainment Weekly Maureen Lee LenkerNov 20, 2018
On all fronts, it strives to twist the Robin Hood story into something more provocative, but ultimately it’s a garbled, hollow mess of attempts at relevancy. Read full review
45
IGNWilliam BibbianiNov 20, 2018
It’s a straightforward retelling with a confusing design philosophy, disappointing action sequences, weak storytelling and a cast which clearly deserved better material. Read full review
42
TheWrapYolanda MachadoNov 20, 2018
Rife with stereotypes, a terrible script, and odd “300”-esque cinematography that just doesn’t fit, this is not only a film nobody asked for, but also one that nobody should be forced to endure. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeNov 29, 2018
It’s a world that is so incoherent and inconsistent you almost have to admire the chutzpah, in which buxom lady horse-thieves dress themselves for a night of crime displaying several inches of showy cleavage, contained only by a glorified shoelace. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua RothkopfNov 21, 2018
This version will make you side with the Sheriff of Nottingham. Read full review
40
EmpireDan JolinNov 20, 2018
Like Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur, this tries hard to do something new and exciting with an old formula. It quickly makes you wish for something more traditional and straightforward. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 20, 2018
This bloated, featureless, CGI-heavy movie is not so much stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, as stealing from Guy Ritchie, Batman, Two-Face and a few others – and not giving back all that much to the audience. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovNov 20, 2018
Robin Hood isn’t as awful as all that, really. For one thing, it’s too singularly bizarre to be anything less than head scratchingly entertaining, and the action set-pieces are pulled off with much quivery panache. Read full review
30
The New York TimesGlenn KennyNov 20, 2018
The plot is twisty in a perfunctory way, the action predictably explosive, the sought-after exhilaration nonexistent. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJan 1, 2019
Egerton is miscast. He and Hewson have nary a spark in their love scenes. Dornan overplays his hand. Foxx belts out nearly every line as if he’s trying to be heard above a parade of fire engines on a Fourth of July parade Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 21, 2018
What balderdash. And not the fun kind, either. Read full review
25
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerNov 21, 2018
There’s nothing particularly memorable about Robin Hood even when you’re laughing at it, and that may be one of the saddest fates a movie can meet. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanNov 20, 2018
The more invested you are in the old-fashioned Robin Hood of legend — the less likely you are to enjoy what amounts to a chilly and flavorless frappé of historical speculation, revisionist folklore and every lazy action-movie cliche ever written. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiNov 20, 2018
The latest labored take on the old British legend, Robin Hood is little more than a pitch-black war film, complete with rudimentary medieval bombs and blood spatter on the camera lens. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichNov 20, 2018
If nothing else, this accidentally hilarious, goofy train wreck of an origin story most definitely has the courage of its convictions. Alas, the film isn’t smart enough to recognize that its convictions are dumb, and it doesn’t have the goods to back them up in the first place. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyNov 21, 2018
This film, with its endless copying of Assassin’s Creed camera angles and state-of-the-art bullseyes, is an ugly machine, tiring to the eye, monotonously scored, and also weirdly regressive on quite a few levels. Read full review
20
Rolling StonePeter TraversNov 21, 2018
Arriving just in time to win a place among the year’s worst films, Robin Hood — bursting with an entitled sense of its own non-existent coolness — falls flat on its fat one. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNov 21, 2018
A thoroughly incoherent movie salad. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyNov 20, 2018
Mendelsohn's villain is boringly one-note, Eve Hewson's Marion uses an incongruous Yank accent and always looks as though she's just stepped out of the makeup trailer, F. Murray Abraham swans around in fancy cardinal's vestments looking sinister and Foxx seems pissed off that he's not somewhere, perhaps anywhere, else. As for Egerton, he's a boy doing a man's job. Read full review
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