Outlaw King is occasionally frustrating, as its shortcomings prevent it from being a potentially great film. Thankfully, the pros outweigh the cons just enough for me to recommend it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2024

The film lifts itself and has great technical and production design, great lead performances, and a story that while familiar, is a much better representation of the same story we have gotten before.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 3, 2024

...watchable yet undeniably hit-and-miss...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2022

[Outlaw King] avoids the slow start with a pulse-pounding final hour that features the electric Aaron Taylor-Johnson

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Outlaw King is often gorgeous and certainly competent filmmaking, but it lacks the dynamism to distinguish it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2022

Episode 17: Now We Live

| Original Score: 74/100 | Sep 1, 2021

Outlaw King is a good, entertaining film that may take its history appropriately seriously but avoids taking itself so.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2021

There is no doubt OUTLAW KING is an engaging and well made epic. However - for better or worse - it is not redolent with the romanticism that allows historical epics to break out from their niche.

| Feb 13, 2020

At one point, when Pine was riding around on a horse while wearing what looked like a gold blanket, I had absolutely no way of distinguishing Outlaw King from Monty Python And The Holy Grail.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 29, 2020

In addition to the impeccable single-shot introduction and Barry Ackroyd's stunning cinematography, it is the graphic violence that really captures the audience's attention, as it conveys the horror and ruthlessness of Scotland's enemies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2019

It's a frustrating watch as there's probably a good movie in there somewhere. Perhaps Mackenzie should go back to the drawing board and cut another twenty minutes.

| Oct 30, 2019

Outlaw King and its discursiveness feel necessary and apt as Chris Pine's silent Robert and Taylor-Johnson's manic Douglas show two sides of trauma.

| May 21, 2019

By not focusing on mythology, Mackenzie keeps Outlaw King from becoming nothing but a war cry of a film. The story's able to bring to life Robert the Bruce's personality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2019

Chris Pine and this director clearly have a knack for working together.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 25, 2019

It's fitting that Outlaw King is on Netflix, because it seems to have been assembled by an algorithm. Specifically, the algorithm that knows you watched Braveheart.

| Apr 16, 2019

Perhaps Outlaw King would have worked best as a miniseries. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2019

Despite a dynamic performance by Chris Pine, the film has a rote "been there, done that" quality that will be hard to vanquish.

| Feb 24, 2019

There's plenty of agreeably bloody swordplay here, and the film moves so quickly and efficiently it's easy to ignore some of the more outwardly silly moments of dialogue and eye-roll-worthy story beats.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2018

I was intrigued by the story. I'm all for the action and the violence, there's plenty of it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 17, 2018

Outlaw King is the type of epic that entertains despite not quite being fit for a king.

| Original Score: C | Dec 17, 2018