Very interesting movie that tells a cool history.

| Apr 9, 2025

It seems a bit of a stretch to think that this is going to end up as the first installment in a long-running MCU-style series of hard-edged escapist adventures loosely based on history. But stranger things have happened.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2025

This old-fashioned tale of folk heroism and hardy underdogs benefits from solid performances and spectacular vistas, but it loses points for a sequel-baiting ending. 

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2025

The central narrative, however, is creaky and overfamiliar — this is where the film falls apart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2025

As William Tell, Claes Bang aims for stirring oration but ends up with something that sounds more like half-stirred word porridge.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 21, 2025

It’s entirely ridiculous, but performed with absolute seriousness and the result is an innocent amusement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

The acting is a bubbling fondue of clashing styles... But with its golden mountain vistas and some sweeping Lord of the Rings-like camerawork, Will Tell does have a satisfying old-school sensibility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2025

It’s so handsomely mounted that it generally gets away with its excess, thanks in large measure to Bang and to a story that became legendary because it can reach to us across the centuries.

| Sep 25, 2024

With a towering Claes Bang in the lead role and a dynamic supporting cast, it’s easier to swallow the notion of there being more Tell adventures to come.

| Sep 11, 2024

There’s no unprecedented spectacle or unique angle to draw in those on the fence about the genre, but more than enough to satisfy anyone who can’t stop counting the days until “Gladiator II” hits theaters.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 11, 2024

Despite the comforting pleasures of watching old-fashioned battle scenes waged with swords, axes and crossbows, Bafta-winning director Nick Hamm’s action film recycles the stirring spectacle of bygone epics without having much new to tell.

| Sep 7, 2024