If you’re addicted to period adventure films, Valhalla Rising (2009) is your poison. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, this English-language Danish period movie plays out in 12th century Denmark. The ...

A one-trick pony that rapidly wears out the considerable welcome of its first reel, “Valhalla Rising” is a grunge-and-gore Viking movie that, like its characters, spends most of its time going round ...