The Adventures of Robin Hood Reviews
Shot in bright-as-a-button Technicolor, this swashbuckler is an action picture that, over 80 years on, still delights people of all ages.
| Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2024
Yet see beyond the tights and the (glorious) Technicolor and this is still a supremely entertaining adventure with some sword fights that rival any fight sequence...
| Sep 13, 2022
A masterful, dazzling adventure-comedy.
| Original Score: A+ | Aug 30, 2022
The Adventures of Robin Hood remains ageless, undemanding in the most marvelous of ways, and rich with effervescent filmmaking and performances.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 21, 2022
Staff battling and sword fighting choreography are quite amusing, with Flynn and Rathbone engaging in believable matches of lightning-fast fencing.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2020
...it is only the brilliant, amazingly versatile use of color that puts suspense and excitement into Robin Hood...
| Apr 20, 2020
The Adventures of Robin Hood has the fine sweep and action of the best silent days, and all the sound and splendor of the modern screen. One of the season's finest films.
| Apr 1, 2019
The film is completely unabashed and utterly committed to delivering on its promise of adventure.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 22, 2016
Nearly every aspect of the Robin Hood myth we know today is embodied in this exciting, socially aware adventure.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 16, 2011
Errol Flynn stars in swashbuckling family delight.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 2, 2010
One of the best swashbucklers ever.
| Original Score: A- | Jul 27, 2010
A rousing and fun popcorn movie of the highest order.
| Original Score: 10/10 | May 17, 2010
If prankish Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic Flynn performs for everybody else.
| Apr 24, 2009
A rousing, high-spirited family entertainment rightly regarded as one for the ages. [Blu-ray]
| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2008
...the quintessential movie swashbuckler.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 29, 2008
Michael Curtiz's adventure, one of the most enjoyable swashbuckling epics made, flaunting star Errol Flynn at his very best, deservedly won several Oscar Awards, including editing for Dawson and music score for Korngold.
| Original Score: A | Jul 26, 2008
It is cinematic pageantry at its best, a highly imaginative telling of folklore in all the hues of Technicolor.
| Jun 10, 2008
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 24, 2008
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2008
Errol Flynn buckles his swashes in this classic historical adventure.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 16, 2007