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32 out of 100

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6.5 out of 10

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  • Starring: Marsha Thomason, Martin Lawrence
  • Summary: Jamal Walker (Lawrence) toils, unhappily, at Medieval World, a theme park that looks like it has not been renovated, or had customers, since the Dark Ages. After falling into the park's fetid moat, Jamal crawls out into fourteenth century England. The Middle Ages will never be the same. (Twentieth Century Fox)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 26
  3. Negative: 15 out of 26
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    It has more hilarious throwaway lines than most comedies offer up as their best jokes, and it is consistently inspired, energetic and, most important, light on its feet.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    58
    Lawrence, as always, exerts the appeal of a con man too lightweight to buy into his own con. He'd be funnier, though, if he didn't insist on being the only funny thing in the room.
  3. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    38
    The best thing about Black Knight is when it finally says goodnight.
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  3. Negative: 2 out of 9

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