André Øvredal’s film is largely devoid of any palpable atmosphere or tension.
This is cinema’s most comprehensive look at the gruesome business of necropsy since The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes.
The sheer oddness of trolls and their mythology outweighs the threat of their power and mysticism in André Øvredal’s Trollhunter.
The film is a well-mixed assemblage of cacophony, rain, and detritus set in the Willet’s Point neighborhood of Queens.