One of the oddest movies I've seen in a while - and that's a good thing.
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Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
While most of the scenes in Tony Stone’s peculiar Middle Ages art project look like a homemade educational reenactment, the film is actually more involving than it should be.
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Variety
Variety
"Pathfinder" meets "Gerry" in Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America, a striking and virtually wordless story of two Vikings separated from their tribe and left to stumble through the North American wilderness.
Though there's no doubt that Mr. Stone is as serious as a heart attack when it comes to creating an air of authenticity -- hence the sloppily butchered chickens and authorial defecation -- he never settles on a coherent tone for the movie.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
The spectacle of two dudes mucking about in the primal forest becomes tedious.
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New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
If a black-metal band ever made a 107-minute music video, this visually striking but otherwise ludicrous epic is probably what it would look like.