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<font size="2"><p>Movie Review
<font size="4"><br>Gladiator</font>
<br>by Elizabeth Abele</font>
<P><font size="6" color="#FFFF00"><b>W</b></font>ith <i>Gladiator</i>, Ridley Scott (<i>Alien</i>) has created the Roman epic for a new generation. This epic pageant takes its place among the great fables of a man of principle who stands up to the Roman empire: next to the great screen heroes of Spartacus and Ben-Hur now stands Maximus, "the general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator, who defied an empire." Russell Crowe fills this archetypal description with the same unswerving, intelligent integrity that made him mesmerizing in <i>L.A. Confidential</i> and <i>The Insider</i>.
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