The Death of Robin Hood
A24 | Release Date: June 19, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
StatusBrian LowryJun 19, 2026
A brutal and bloody (for a while, anyway) showcase for Hugh Jackman hidden beneath a shaggy beard, with not much more to recommend it. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalKyle SmithJun 19, 2026
Robin Hood, but he’s a bloodthirsty killing machine,” seems to have been an irresistible pitch that led to the curious if watchable drama The Death of Robin Hood. This Robin is anything but a merry man, and the film is anything but a fun adventure. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonJun 18, 2026
The Death of Robin Hood feels like a director thinking only of his ambitions and not whether he’s making a movie anyone wants to bother to see. The lesson is right there in the film: Audiences decide what gets remembered. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonJun 18, 2026
The Death of Robin Hood feels like a director thinking only of his ambitions and not whether he’s making a movie anyone wants to bother to see. The lesson is right there in the film: Audiences decide what gets remembered. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshJun 18, 2026
As an audience, we’re left wondering what all of this is for, and who it’s for. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 18, 2026
Truth be told, this is hard-going as a movie-watching experience, a “Quest for Fire” without humor or sex, a “Robin and Marian” without romance, a “Robin Hood” without “merry” men, just accomplices. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJake CoyleJun 17, 2026
The Death of Robin Hood drains the blood, and life, out of an old English legend. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJun 16, 2026
For a slow – and often ponderously uneventful – film, the ending also feels strangely rushed, decisions and reveals not explored enough for them to really land in the way that’s clearly intended (there’s a potentially more satisfying psychological thriller using the same ingredients). There’s really impressive craft here though. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonJun 11, 2026
Hugh Jackman’s take on a fabled friend of the poor may empty his veins, but the film might have meant more had he spilled his guts. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 11, 2026
Pushing too hard to give The Death Of Robin Hood a sense of gravitas, Sarnoski suffocates his story rather than letting its palpable agony envelop the viewer. This Robin Hood subverts our expectations, but he never gets to breathe. Read full review
59
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 11, 2026
Jackman, no slouch when it comes to playing men reckoning with the trail of dead they’ve left in their wake, is a godsend in the title role. Much like Cage’s sheer unpredictability elevated every moment of Pig, so, too, does Jackman’s eternally sturdy on-screen presence, even if his calm is meant to underline barely contained bloodlust, keep this version of Robin from becoming just another outlaw staring down fate. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerJun 11, 2026
It’s a slow drip towards the end, reality running out like blood from a vein, leaving only a body of stories behind. But without a compelling narrative or affecting emotions at its core, the subversion is often as shallow as the legend. Read full review
50
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferJun 11, 2026
It’s easy enough to admire the evident technical merits, yes, but difficult to find any element that invites a viewer into the specific, soulful experience of the characters. As The Death of Robin Hood circles the obvious ending, the main point of reflection it invites is the missed opportunity to flesh out this world with a level of detail on par with its ambitions. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 11, 2026
It’s all very atmospheric, including the frequent bloodlettings that Sister Brigid applies to Robin’s arm (the camera lingers lovingly on every spilled drop). But the dour, humorless proceedings never achieve the profundity they’re aiming for, and the revisionist take on Robin doesn’t prove very interesting or revelatory. Read full review
42
AwardsWatchTrace SauveurJun 11, 2026
Robin Hood, at times, speaks about his popular persona and seems to be in direct conversation with the generations of stories that would surround his name hundreds of years into the future. It’s an interesting wrinkle, but one stamped out by the film’s more predictable dynamics: the world-weary savage, his unexpected young companion, and the path to breaking cycles of violence. These are foundational ideas that help make up the bedrock of similar mature fables. The Death of Robin Hood grounds them into dust with a brooding glare. Read full review
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