'The Crow' Is a Predictable Dud

Bill Skarsgård is the only cute Skarsgård out of the many tall Swedish Skarsgårdian actors who haunt our screens. He’s big-eyed and gaunt and sweet-looking, as opposed to father Stellan with the small shifty eyes, who’s a natural in villain roles, and hulking brother Alexander, who played the Viking berserker of Robert Eggers’s The Northman. Which makes it interesting that boyish Bill Skarsgård is best known for his evil clown Pennywise in It (2017) and his fancy-pants baddie in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) — and he’ll soon star in another Eggers film, playing the not-at-all-cute role of vampire Count Orlok in the upcoming remake of Nosferatu.