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Name: Excalibur
Released: 1981-4-10
Cast: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey

Excalibur

R
2h 20m
1981

72%

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The epic tale of King Arthur roars to life in this story of Arthur's rise to power, the Knights of the Round Table, Merlin the Magician, the golden age of Camelot and the search for the Holy Grail.

Director:

John Boorman

Producer:

John Boorman, Edgar F. Cross, Robert A. Eisenstein

Cast:

Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey, Nicol Williamson, Robert Addie, Gabriel Byrne, Keith Buckley, Katrine Boorman, Liam Neeson, Corin Redgrave, Patrick Stewart

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

72%

Critics Consensus: John Boorman's operatic, opulent take on the legend of King Arthur is visually remarkable, and features strong performances from an all-star lineup of British thespians.

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

John Boorman is an intoxicated moviemaker, with a wonderful kind of zeal -- a greed to encompass more and more and more in his pictures... I don’t know-of any other director who puts such a burnish on his obsessions.

The closer one pays attention to Excalibur, the more frustrating the experience is.

Excalibur is an embarrassment... it’s the banality of much of the dialogue in Excalibur that’s so depressing.

Excalibur can be regarded as a personal epic, a humanizing of mythological figures and on this level the film works superbly, aided by some remarkable performances.

July 27, 2022

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New York Magazine/Vulture

David Denby

Excalibur is full of visual fustian -- flames in the night, mist rising ominously from the ground, bits of klutzy magic. Yet, despite all the rhetoric, the movie never takes off.

June 17, 2022

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