As the gladiator Lucius, Paul Mescal wisely doesn’t try to emulate Russell Crowe’s swagger in the original film.

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

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

Paul Mescal is the "mesmerising centre" of Ridley Scott's long-awaited Gladiator sequel, which balances emotional drama and ...

Paul Mescal is buffed, bearded and bronzed and prepared to do battle in the Colosseum in Ridley Scott's gloriously enjoyable ...

Decades after Gladiator swept the Oscars, Ridley Scott is back with the highly anticipated Gladiator II, proving there's no ...

"Gladiator II" doesn't try to out-epic the original movie. Instead, it veers more bonkers with a steely Paul Mescal and a ...

Scott throws a lot more into in his sequel to the 2001 original, but he’s at a loss with what to do with it all ...

Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal also star in the sequel that brings superb spectacle and storytelling in equal measure.

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have deteriorated ...

Gladiator 2 is thrilling – even if Paul Mescal is no Russell Crowe - 4/5 Ridley Scott’s belated sequel has sharks, monkeys, ...

It’s a Saturday-night epic of tony escapism. But is it great? A movie to love the way that some of us love "Gladiator"? No and no. It’s ultimately a mere shadow of that movie. But it’s just diverting ...