| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
24 Frames Per Second
Chris A. Bolton |
"Ridley Scott's Gladiator is a movie for boys." more... |
B |
| Ain't It Cool News |
"This is the Ridley Scott that we fanboys and girls drool over." more... |
B+ |
| Cinema Sense |
"Crowe proves he is a world class star with his versatile, passionate and physically virile performance." more... |
B+ |
culturevulture.net
Tom Block |
"Ridley Scott’s 'Gladiator' is a bipolar movie, a spectacle that’s against spectacles. It’s a sporadically absorbing film with a handful of classy performances, but it has a chiding schoolmarm’s temperament." more... |
C+ |
| filmcritic.com |
"The awe-inspiring trailers for 'Gladiator' may have you dreaming of 'Spartacus' and 'Ben-Hur,' but you may be surprised to find this film in reality a less palatable mélange of 'Braveheart' and 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.'" more... |
B- |
| Flick Filosopher |
"Is 'Gladiator' an action movie? Is it an historical drama? Is it a sweeping epic? Yes." more... |
B+ |
| Harvey's Movie Reviews |
"Spellbinding historical drama from director Ridley Scott, long overdue a return to the kind of film which engages the senses and the mind and lingers in the memory." more... |
A- |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
"A sprawling epic set ablaze by massive sets, genuine authenticity, awesome battle sequences and yes, even a good ol' fashioned story dipped in love, power and revenge." more... |
B+ |
| Movie Bodega |
"Skewering history for the good parts and throwing out the facts, 'Gladiator' is the thinking man's summer movie -- a bubbly tale of heroism and virtue, with enough violence to shame the most ardent Mel Gibson fan." more... |
B- |
| Nitrate Online Review |
"'Gladiator' puts its audience through a digitized, derivative DeMille, but compensates with remarkable performances (including, sadly, the last one by Oliver Reed)." more... |
B |
| Orlando Weekly Movies |
"Special effects in movies have become increasingly wedded to science fiction, but in the glorious spectacle 'Gladiator,' director Ridley Scott uses this technology to re-create -- with a startling physicality and immediacy -- the Roman Empire that once blanketed most of Europe." more... |
B+ |
| Radio Free Entertainment |
(7 out of 10) "An ambitiously large story is kept focused thanks to a strong performance from Russell Crowe." more... |
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James Berardinelli |
"This is filmmaking on a grand scale." more... |
A- |
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