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Film · 2000 · Historical epic
Gladiator
Directed by Ridley Scott
2000
★ 7.5 editorial score
It dragged the Roman epic back after thirty-five years of dormancy: Russell Crowe's fury is the whole engine, and the arena sequences still deliver everything they promise.
“Heartily masculine, commanding yet capable of temperance, and with a warily, wearily understanding gaze, Crowe makes Maximus' desire to go home when his job is done the greatest aspiration a man can have. Whether or not he gets there in the end doesn't matter. What matters for today's hero is the good fight, and Gladiator KOs us with a doozy.”
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