Kingdom of Heaven

Better than "Gladiator" -- deeper, more thoughtful, more about human motivation and less about action.Read Full Review »

Full of astonishments, not the least of which are its ideas.Read Full Review »

Scott and company have gotten so accomplished at re-creating history that the results have a welcome offhanded quality, making them spectacular without seeming to be showing off.Read Full Review »

Kingdom of Heaven may have problems, but it delivers.Read Full Review »

Odd as it is to say, Kingdom of Heaven loses its momentum the more Balian gets religion.Read Full Review »

The battle skirmishes here mix sudden violence with slow-motion artistry. The attractive cast can sell an obsession or articulate a conundrum with equal fervor.Read Full Review »

Scott, working from a script by William Monahan, is so busy balancing our sympathies, making sure no one gets offended, that he has made a pageant of war that would have gotten a thumbs-up from Eleanor Roosevelt.Read Full Review »

It's hard to say with assurance whether the flaw is in Bloom's performance or in Monahan's politically correct conception of Balian, precociously secular for a Crusader.Read Full Review »

Fails to rouse any passion. A potentially great subject is frittered away, though this being a Scott movie, there's style to spare.Read Full Review »

The movie does what any self-respecting politician would do: sidestep the issues, soft-pedal mortal costs, talk a fat game, and divert your attention away from history with exercises in spectacle and power.Read Full Review »