Decades after Gladiator swept the Oscars, Ridley Scott is back with the highly anticipated Gladiator II, proving there's no historical fixation quite like it. This long-awaited sequel is an ...

Ridley Scott's long-anticipated return to ancient Rome is a pale shadow of its Best Picture-winning predecessor.

"Gladiator II" has even more crowd-pleasing combat events than the original and an operatic story showcasing flamboyant ...

Gladiator II is both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott's maximalism never replicating the charisma of ...

Now “Gladiator” is back, with the sequel storming modern arenas (called cinemas) on November 15th in Britain and November ...

It's a solid piece of neoclassical popcorn, with Paul Mescal as a pensive avenger, but it's ultimately a mere shadow of ...

So get set to be drenched in the blood and the sweat of an Ancient Rome where events programming at the Colosseum appears to be handled by a freaky forerunner to the WWE. Before Lucius gets his shot ...

Denzel and grand spectacles can't save Gladiator II from a disregard of internal logic, bad editing, terrible pacing, and ...

Ridley Scott's sequel to the 2000 film puts the spectacular into spectacle and needs to be seen on the biggest screen ...

Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn and Connie Nielsen also star in the bruising sword-and-sandal epic, set 15 years after the events of the original Oscar-winning drama.

It's understandable why many are feeling nervous about Gladiator 2. After all, the Oscar-winning original has cemented itself in the cultural zeitgeist for its epic speeches, its thrilling battles ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful, that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...