The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Prime Video | Release Date: April 18, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
83
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
IndieWireRyan LattanzioFeb 18, 2025
Season 1 Review: This is a world of blood and viscera, body fluids, and entrails, and Kurzel is going to show you all of it. And with a brilliant cast of actors, you’ll want to keep going where this road promises to take you. Read full review
90
DeciderClaire WaheedApr 28, 2025
Season 1 Review: The Narrow Road To The Deep North is a gritty, powerful watch with striking imagery and riveting performances that sometimes read as subtle in all the best ways. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 18, 2025
Season 1 Review: There’s a lingering soulfulness here that feels new to Kurzel’s work, distilled in an intensely moving lead performance from Jacob Elordi. Read full review
80
The TimesCarol MidgleyJul 21, 2025
Season 1 Review: This series is terrific and on occasion magnificent. Its ability to tell a sprawling, epic story over three timelines in five shortish episodes (admirable in the era of the 14-parter) and tell us something new about a war is commendable. Read full review
80
The New York TimesMargaret LyonsMay 1, 2025
Season 1 Review: There’s a visceral quality to most scenes — the clammy humidity, the golden warmth of a sandy beach, the icy sterility of a gray office — as the show teases out the pains and pleasures of the body along with its grander ideas about the mind, the heart, the world, war. “Narrow” is patient, but it isn’t slow. Read full review
80
ColliderIsabella SoaresApr 16, 2025
Season 1 Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a tough watch, but one that doesn't hold back from displaying the cruelty of war and the dangers of blind ambition. Read full review
80
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 18, 2025
Season 1 Review: Hinds is already a mighty force in it, but we wait for the biggest tests regarding Elordi. His laconic restraint, which has so much potential, needs to judder and implode to give the whole story a core. If he gets us there, it will be unmissable. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 18, 2025
Season 1 Review: Kurzel handles the material with confidence and storytelling verve and gets fervent, focused performances from Elordi, Hinds and Young. Read full review
75
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferFeb 18, 2025
Season 1 Review: Kurzel’s surveys of their gaggle, often from above in some form of coordinated motion, are exhilarating demonstrations of fraternal belonging that pop against the show’s desaturated color palette. The show could stand to humanize them a bit further, though. Only Dorrigo’s chum Frank Gardiner (Thomas Weatherall) stands out from the undifferentiated masses. Read full review
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