Excalibur (film)
"Excalibur" was the number one film during its opening weekend of 10–12 April 1981, eventually earning $34,967,437 in the United States. , it currently has a 78% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 41 reviews.
Excalibur (film)
Roger Ebert called it both a "wondrous vision" and "a mess." Elaborating further, Ebert said the film was "a record of the comings and goings of arbitrary, inconsistent, shadowy figures who are not heroes but simply giants run amok. Still, it's wonderful to look at." Vincent Canby said that while Boorman took Arthurian myths seriously, "he has used them with a pretentiousness that obscures his vision." In her review in "The New Yorker", Pauline Kael said the film had its own "crazy integrity", adding that the imagery was "impassioned" with a "hypnotic quality". According to her, the dialogue, however, was "near-atrocious". She concluded by saying that ""Excalibur" is all images flashing by... We miss the dramatic intensity that we expect the stories to have, but there's always something to look at."