A Knight's Tale (2001)

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80	Washington Post Desson Thomson Savvy without being smug, cute without being saccharin, and funny without slipping into over-the-top goofiness, this is a 14th-century good time.
75	Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert It's a reminder of the days before films got so cynical and unrelentingly violent. A Knight's Tale is whimsical, silly and romantic.
75	San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham More often than not, it's fun.
70	Rolling Stone Peter Travers It's a dumb summer movie done with smarts.
70	Washington Post Rita Kempley The action scenes are beautifully mounted and photographed and offer a sense of the rigors of the sport.
70	Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern A Knight's Tale wasn't made for people like me. It was made for the kids of summer.
60	The New York Times A.O. Scott The picture itself is good-humored, but bland and predictable. It's a cross between an All-American vaudevillian version of "Shakespeare in Love" and Mel Brooks's "Robin Hood: Men in Tights."
58	Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum Laddish, one joke, genre scrambling rock & roll fairy tale.
50	Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan As advertised, A Knight's Tale does try to rock you. The problem is, it doesn't rock you nearly enough.
50	USA Today Susan Wloszczyna From the moment he trudges through the woods in his scratched and smudged birthday suit, Paul Bettany as a saucy Geoffrey Chaucer takes command.