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  • 1981
  • R
  • United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
  • 2 h 26 m
  • 1981
  • R
  • United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
  • 2 h 26 m

Summary The members of a traveling Renaissance Faire, who saddle up on motorcycles instead of horses, ride from town to town to stage medieval jousting tournaments with combatants in suits of armor and wielding lances, battle-axes, maces and broadswords. The spectacle of this violent pageant soon garners national attention, much to the dismay of...

Directed By: George A. Romero

Written By: George A. Romero

  • 1981
  • R
  • United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
  • 2 h 26 m
  • 1981
  • R
  • United Film Distribution Company (UFDC)
  • 2 h 26 m

Knightriders

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary The members of a traveling Renaissance Faire, who saddle up on motorcycles instead of horses, ride from town to town to stage medieval jousting tournaments with combatants in suits of armor and wielding lances, battle-axes, maces and broadswords. The spectacle of this violent pageant soon garners national attention, much to the dismay of...

Directed By: George A. Romero

Written By: George A. Romero

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Mixed
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90
The brilliance of Knightriders—and it is a brilliant film, even though no one paid it much attention when it was released in 1981—is that Romero clearly identifies with King William, yet doesn’t lionize him.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
80
Despite pitfalls of bathos and silliness, Knightriders has a startling sweetness, warmth and humor. [13 April 1981, p.82]
By Jack Kroll FULL REVIEW
80
It's hokey as hell in parts, and the director sometimes shows an uncertainty in tone (resulting in some performances which are pitched a little too broadly) but those imperfections lend an endearing quality to the film.
By Adam Lowes FULL REVIEW
70
Though Knightriders is absurd when you get right down to it, its absurdities are often fun and far less offensive than the solemnities that Mr. Boorman has dished up at far greater expense.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
63
For all its flaws, this is as personal a movie as we've seen all year from a director in the commercial mainstream. I respect it, and I'll be thinking about it for a long time. [23 April 1981, p.19]
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
60
Knightriders is overlong and at times fairly undramatic, but for viewers who stick with it and accept the premise, there is much of interest to be found here.
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50
Because it attempts so much more than Excalibur, the disappointment of Knightriders cuts deeper. Romero wants to tell the tale, to comment on it and to relate it to the present; he wants to bring contemporary satirical life to the myth, a service he performed cannily for the Dracula legend in Martin. [18 April 1981]
By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Laurel Productons
Release Date Apr 10, 1981
Duration 2 h 26 m
Rating R
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