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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh Page   1   "Scott’s cinematic fiction captivated me as completely as its title character won the soul of Rome."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 3/5 "There's something Jerry Springeresque about Gladiator."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null 3/4 "Thanks to a combination of real locations and convincing computer-generated effects, Scott can create sweeping vistas and that Cecil B. DeMille would envy."   Lybarger Links   Dan Lybarger 4/4 "A refreshing (and much-anticipated) return to the world of some of the most astounding warriors ever known."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes B- "The film is a reminder of the old Hollywood sword-and-sandal films of grandeur and muscle and frivolity."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Gladiator is a flawed motion picture, and one that, for all its flashiness, comes off as a mild disappointment. It is still a good film, but only marginally so, and easily could have been a great one."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Dustin Putman A "Great performances from Crowe and Phoenix."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 8/10 "A beautiful looking piece of work."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A- "This is a big, all-stops-out blockbuster and it delivers."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov B- "It's sufficiently grandiose and sporadically exciting to hold a viewer's attention through its duller stretches."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 5/5 "Its depiction of the primal emotions that constitute our lives is positively enthralling. "   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3.5/4 "This is filmmaking on a grand scale."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Gladiator is an old-fashioned sword-and-sandal tale with graphic violence and a slick gloss of sentimentality. It almost works."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 4/5 "Bloody sword-and-sandals epic is good, but not great."   Netflix   James Rocchi 10/10 "Vibrant, visceral, provocative and transporting."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 7/10 "Would've made for an extremely marvelous picture were it not for the fact that it falls victim to a worn storyline."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2/5 "The political intrigue subplot feels tacked on and dull, the film is entirely too long for a simple revenge melodrama...and the structure mercilessly follows its predictable pattern..."   ToxicUniverse.com   Jeremiah Kipp "If there's one film you can see on the silver screen this summer, this may just be the one."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 8/10 "One to remember."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo C "Gladiator can aptly be called a typical summer movie, meaning it is mindless and designed for the lowest common denominator."   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 7/10 "What the film lacks in intellect, historical fact, or common sense, it more than makes up for in action, spectacle, and grandeur."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "A real winner."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3.5/4 "Una muestra más de por qué el cine es considerado como el Séptimo Arte"   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 5/5 "A future classic."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3.5/4 "Somehow perversely, you become like the bloodthirsty mobs watching the massacres, almost getting up in the theater to chant 'Maximus! MAXIMUS!!' along with the Romans."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 9/10 "Ridley Scott supplies bloodthirsty spectacle on an extraordinary scale in this muscular historical drama."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 8/10 "With a few reservations for [Ridley] Scott's visual style this is pleasant return of a type of film we have not seen made since the '60s."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 2/4 "It's a violent, noisy, low-brow distraction."   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes 9/10 "Gladiator is visually magnificent, absolutely stunning to look at -- and to listen to, with its haunting, stirring score."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/4 "[Crowe's] commanding performance not only towers over Ridley Scott's epic adventure, but elevates it to a higher plane."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 3/5 "For summer fare, it wasn't half bad."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 4/5 "Astounding scope and sweep and such masterful story-telling."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/5 "Os inúmeros equívocos históricos poderiam ser perdoados caso o filme de Ridley Scott conseguisse sobreviver ao menos como obra de ficção. Não consegue."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4.5/5 "One of those movies 'they don't make anymore,' Gladiator is a guts and glory epic with swords and sandals, spectacular action sequences, a seriously good hero and a cast of (digitally enhanced) thousands."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "If a gladiator film doesn't work as spectacle or as bloodthirsty action, what's left? Drama? It's dead on that level, too..."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B+ "So skillfully delivered is this sturm und drang… that the film's shortcomings are all but buried beneath the sheer awesome spectacle."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 9/10 "A grand spectacle of a movie wrapped around intimate human drama."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B "It's an exciting yarn...and does not disappoint the action junkie. It's just not great."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 10/10 "A joyous return of the cinematic epic."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg B- "All the pieces are in place, but somehow they just don’t come together."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 9/10 "Savage, sweeping, spectacular."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Susan Granger 2.5/4 "A Roman version of Ben-Hur, Gladiator succeeds on only slightly more levels than it fails."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 9/10 Read review   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh Page   1