If dire expectations are generated by a throwaway early-January release of an upscale historical epic, there is a mild surprise in store with "Tristan & Isolde." This understated period drama may lack ...

Next we'll hear about a film that our reviewer describes as `boy meets girl, boy loses girl, and so on from there.' It's a new film called "Tristan & Isolde," and it revisits a classic medieval story ...

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LOS ANGELES — For the legendary lovers in Tristan & Isolde, it was love at first sight — even if one of them had their eyes closed. In the Kevin Reynolds-directed Dark Ages drama, Isolde is an Irish ...

Literature and legend are rife with young lovers tragically undone by war, politics and cruel fate. Director Baz Luhrmann understood that the naïveté of teenagers in love is a force to be reckoned ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After the recent film debacle that was King Arthur I must admit that the idea of another ancient ...

For a tragic romance whose ads evoke Romeo and Juliet, Tristan & Isolde is one big action flick. There's far more smiting than smooching — more hewing of limbs than heaving of bosoms. That's because ...

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