The gladiator trainer Proximo (Oliver Reed) says, “Ultimately, we are all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how. But we can decide how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered as men.” ...

How Gladiator 2 connects to the first movie. Beyond the obvious connection with a grown-up Lucius as protagonist, there are other characters directly linking the sequel to the first movie.

Ridley Scott may never stop making movies, and on the basis of Gladiator II, that’s a very good thing. Following two imposing historical epics (The Last Duel, Napoleon), the prolific 86-year-old ...

Gladiator II may not be remembered for all time (as the emperors hope they will be), and it never reckons with celebrating the very bloodsport its tale condemns. Nonetheless, as far as second ...

This story is from Gladiator Week, GQ’s dive into all things Gladiator in pop culture to celebrate the release of Gladiator II. Read the rest of the stories here. Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon ...

A product of our era of legacy sequels and zombified intellectual properties, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II sets out to one-up its fondly remembered predecessor with more grandiose set pieces ...

Op-ed: "Gladiator II" and the missed opportunity of history far more riveting than Ridley Scott's fiction. ... Rome has been taken over by a foppish, effeminate class of men in perfumed silks.

Our Gladiator 2 review demaded personal reviews for Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, ... And we went to war with stunt men. So it becomes a stunt men brawl of savagery.