Tristan + Isolde

Long before Jack and Ennis — before Romeo and Juliet, even — there was Tristan and Isolde, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose undying but forbidden love has inspired everyone from Richard Wagner to Dorothy Parker. Inspiration, however, isn't exactly the word behind this most recent telling: Director Kevin Reynolds isn't so much inspired as determined to tell it with period accuracy, without bothering to be historically accurate. A century after the fall of the Roman Empire, Britain has devolved into a hodgepodge of rival tribal territories whose squabbling rulers have made it easy for the Irish king Donnchadh (David Patrick O'Hara) to keep them all under his ruthles...