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Written by Bret Devereaux on 2024-11-27 at 00:08

My review of Gladiator II (2024) is now up at Foreign Policy!

I confess I didn't much like the film. As history, its nonsense, but we knew it would be. But its also weak as a movie, reenacting its better predecessor rather than telling a new story.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/26/gladiator-ii-review-movie-history-ancient-rome/

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Written by Virginicus on 2024-11-27 at 10:59

@bretdevereaux Sappers have breached the Aurelian paywall. https://archive.is/7RWq1

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Written by Mr Grudenko on 2024-11-28 at 04:03

@bretdevereaux It also didn't honor the tradition of 1960s Italian sword-and-sandal epics by being simply titled "Gladiator II" instead of "The Son of the Gladiator" ;-)

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