The new Disney movie “The Alamo” opens this weekend, and the initial reviews are reasonably good.

Ebert likes it.
Bruce Westbrook in the Chronicle wants to like it, but does not want to be accused of being parochial if he admits it.
Joel Morgenstern in the WSJ ($) generally does not like it.
The NY Times review cannot bring itself to like it.

If you are interested in the background to the Battle of the Alamo, I recommend “Texian Iliad,” a 1996 masterpiece on the Texas Revolution written by Stephen L. Hardin, a professor of history at Victoria College in southeast Texas.