If it can’t muster much historical insight, this Bohemian foray rhapsodises violence all too effectively: mace-smitings, nose-bitings, even a lion crunching someone’s head like a boiled sweet.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2022

Struggles as a work of historical fiction, but when the action mounts, it’s immersive and exciting.

| Sep 9, 2022

A film with an identity crisis, caught between its lowbrow sword-and-splatter charms and grander ambitions... The clarity of message gets hopelessly bogged down in the internecine conflicts of all the players.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2022

This crash course in Czech history is often compelling for its intricate details, but rarely for its characterizations, dialogue, or dramatic tension.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 9, 2022

Even if 'Medieval' occasionally succumbs to its worst biopic influences, it’s still a delightfully confident work from a filmmaking team that knows its way around a sword.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 8, 2022

Glum and bludgeoning, “Medieval” serves up a melancholic hero — see how it pains Zizka to take all these lives! — and a limp love interest-cum-bargaining chip.

| Sep 8, 2022

On its own up-to-the-moment stylistic terms, “Medieval” works just fine.

| Sep 5, 2022

Unfortunately, Jákl’s film is precisely as generic as its title would suggest, and what little there is to recommend is buried under a mountain of tedium.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 5, 2022