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Highlights:

• Hugh Jackman is drawing some of the strongest individual reviews of his career for The Death of Robin Hood, a dark, revisionist take on the folk legend from director Michael Sarnoski.
• Critics are far more divided on the film itself, with reviews ranging from full-throated praise to calling it a "tedious slog."
• The split is unusually consistent across outlets: almost every review separates Jackman's performance from its verdict on the film around him.

Hugh Jackman's Robin Hood isn't the swashbuckling folk hero anyone grew up with. He's grey-bearded, guilt-ridden, and by his own account in the film, a killer who had a very good publicist. Critics reviewing The Death of Robin Hood keep landing on the same split: near-universal respect for what Jackman is doing, and real, outlet-by-outlet disagreement over whether the film around him earns its own seriousness.

What's the film actually about?

Michael Sarnoski, the director of Pig and A Quiet Place: Day One, strips away almost everything associated with Robin Hood as folklore. Jackman's Robin is recovering from a near-fatal injury at a remote priory, nursed by a prioress played by Jodie Comer, when Bill Skarsgård's Little John arrives asking for one more favour. The opening scenes set the tone early: a folk hero who mocks his own legend, whose charitable myth was mostly good marketing.