Entertainment 06-05-2005 who: Ridley Scott what: Turns Crusades yarn into "a two-hour talkathon" when: This weekend snippet: The Gladiator director`s epic adventure Kingdom of Heaven has "almost no fighting and a hero with all the gravitas of Kevin The Teenager," complains David Edwards in The Mirror. The Guardian calls it "a modernised romantic-liberal fantasy" which is "stuffed with some of the silliest supporting performances imaginable" but James Christopher of The Times loves it, calling it a "thumping medieval yarn" and celebrates the battle scenes for putting the viewer "in the eye of the storm". Also on release in the UK this weekend is Palindromes by Todd Solondz - "The ultimate feelbad movie," according to The Mirror. [... more]

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