Gladiator Critic Reviews

What matters for today's hero is the good fight, and Gladiator KOs us with a doozy.Read the full review

John Mathieson's widescreen cinematography is magnificent, and the pacing across 2½ hours is well modulated.Read the full review

One extended guilty pleasure.Read the full review

At 2 1/2 hours, Gladiator is a long ride, but it doesn't drag.Read the full review

Instead of the heat of humanity, what lingers on in the mind is the cool of the computerized effects.Read the full review

Like an aging athlete who knows how to husband strength and camouflage weaknesses, it makes the most of what it does well and hopes you won't notice its limitations.Read the full review

Grandiose and silly.Read the full review

It employs depression as a substitute for personality, and believes that if the characters are bitter and morose enough, we won't notice how dull they are.Read the full review

Gladiator's combination of grim sanctimony and drenching, Dolby-ized dismemberings left me appalled.Read the full review