Lester and Goldman must have wanted to out-Kubrick Kubrick. the lack of sympathy for the farmers and the soldiers turns the film into an impersonal essay in carnage.

| Dec 1, 2023

Richard Leister directed Robin and Marian, his finest film yet in many respects. He adds his antic comedy to the beginning, but lets love and adventure carry the bulk of the film.

| May 9, 2023

The movie is less nihilistic than simply truthful, an effective rebuttal to the Errol Flynn classic.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 29, 2022

Robin and Marian is basically a failure, but it has its moments. Even if we laugh at it more than with it, it isn't boring, and it isn't depressing.

| May 26, 2020

Audrey Hepburn, at 46, is still the only actress on the screen who can make a nun's habit look chic.

| Nov 18, 2019

Much of the movie, despite Lester's efforts at keeping things lively and tossing in a bit of intimate spectacle spasmodically, sounds like one of Max Beerbohm's parodies.

| Oct 23, 2019

Between humor and melancholy... the character of Robin is transformed and takes a different path than the Robin Hood of dreams and children's books. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 25, 2019

Robin and Marian is a film that must stand or fall on the strength of its stars. Fortunately, it has two of the best."

| Mar 31, 2014

The atmosphere is one of melancholy as Lester penetrates through the gauze of fantasy to find the human heart, and softly finds it beating.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2014

A Richard Lester film starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn has got to worth two hours of anybody's cinema-going time.

| Mar 31, 2014

[A] gorgeous, masterly elegy for a vanished age.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2014

A spotty picture that's sometimes satirical, a trifle pretentious, occasionally exciting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2014

The idea of picking up the Robin Hood legend 20 years later seems okay at first consideration, but Goldman and Lester never got beyond the premise.

| Jul 6, 2010

The social satire gets precious at times, but Connery (sans hairpiece!) and Hepburn (swathed for the first hour in a nun's wimple) bring a fervid depth of feeling to their characters' rekindled courtship.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 27, 2007

Despite the battles and feats of derring-do that follow, Robin and Marian never really develops the sense of urgency that cinematic swashbucklers require.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2006

It's one of those rare movies, like King Hu's Touch of Zen, that handles its historical imagery so cleanly, and contains its pretensions so solidly within sure characterisation and plotting, that it is often sublimely expressive.

| Feb 9, 2006

Overcomes its mediocre script by Lester's excellent visualizations, the pleasing performances from Connery and Hepburn, and the broad comedy that underscores this tragic story.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2005

Connery and Hepburn seem to have arrived at a tacit understanding between themselves about their characters. They glow. They really do seem in love. And they project as marvelously complex, fond, tender people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004