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Jun 6, 2011
100
The Troll Hunter offers high-caliber entertainment despite a low-budget production.
Jun 5, 2011
80
Troll Hunter may be a relatively low-budget fantasy but the film looks epic in all the right sequences.
Jun 5, 2011
80
The Troll Hunter injects inventiveness, folkloric idiosyncrasy and deadpan humor into the overexploited faux-documentary trend. A generous dollop of "Jurassic Park" inspiration doesn't hurt either.
Jun 9, 2011
80
One of the many pleasures of the Norwegian director André Ovredal's clever and engaging mock documentary Trollhunter is the way it plays with the idea of the supernatural rule book.
Jun 23, 2011
80
The film is shot with handheld cameras in the standard mockumentary style, but the content is often hilarious, especially when the trolls show up. There's also a marvelous deadpan comic performance by Otto Jespersen as a troll-hunter and tireless dispenser of troll lore.
Sep 5, 2011
80
You might need to take a Norwegian guide along to explain various local references and identify the specific trolls, but Troll Hunter's proud cultural identity - tremble, a US remake is in the works - is its strongest suit. It's wry, spectacular fun.
Jun 9, 2011
75
The casting of Jespersen, with his sub-Wookie intonations and granite stare, is key: If this pillar of masculinity says there be trolls, I don't have to be bitten by one to believe it.
Jun 10, 2011
75
You'll want to catch this clever movie before Hollywood ruins everything with a dumb remake.
Jun 16, 2011
75
André Øvredal's dry horror-comedy Trollhunter is successful on multiple levels, with a brisk pace, excellent location work and a strong lead performance by Norwegian comedian Otto Jespersen.
