In Kingdom of Heaven, Ridley Scott’s handsome but curiously remote Crusades epic, the bloody holy war between Christians and Muslims surges forth with the boiling logistical fury we’ve come to expect ...

LOS ANGELES – The epic battle tale "Kingdom of Heaven" (search) fought its way to the top of the box office, taking in $20 million in its debut weekend. The film by "Gladiator" director Ridley Scott ...

Sunday, July 30, is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12; Psalm 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130; Romans 8:28-30; Matthew 13:44-52 or Matthew 13:44-46. The Gospel ...

Click here to read more from Slate’s Summer Movies. There was a moment in Hollywood in 2001, soon after Ridley Scott’s Gladiator took home several hundred million dollars and a best picture Oscar, ...

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The opening credits of the new film by Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven, should feature a disclaimer like the ones on rides at Disneyland: You Will Get Bored, You May Fall Asleep. The movie is like one ...

Despite its drubbing at the B.O., "Kingdom of Heaven" is director Ridley Scott's best film since "Gladiator," combining an intelligent script which tackles the historical complexity of the Crusades, ...

Like “Troy,” “Alexander” and “The Last Samurai,” Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven” is another boy’s-book adventure movie dressed up as a grown man’s epic — it’s far too little for its britches.

Was Ridley Scott trying to make a medieval epic, or was he trying to remake Kevin Smith’s Dogma? That was the question I found myself left with as I shuffled rather disappointedly out of the theater ...

"Kingdom of Heaven" navigates through the minefield of the Crusades and, by extension, the contentious background of Christian-Muslim relations in ways both shrewd and calculated. Genuinely ...