Where do you suppose Heath Ledger learned the homoerotic male-bonding skills that served him so well in Brokeback Mountain? I'm guessing it was in A Knight's Tale, the film that suggests that all the underdog sports-movie clichés you know and love are at least 600 years old.

Illustrating that notion is the movie's chief gimmick, the pairing of jousting scenes with a deliberately anachronistic soundtrack of '70s stadium-rock fist-pumpers like "We Will Rock You" and "Takin' Care of Business." That's so stupid it's brilliant.

–Gary Susman, senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, explaining why A Knight's Tale is the cinematic equivalent of an idiot savant. [EW]