Spartacus Reviews
7M Pictures
Kirk Douglas, while a little old in the role, makes a fine action hero, and Stanley Kubrick's still-accessible directing made the movie click.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
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Common Sense Media
Thrilling epic is too intense for the youngest.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Cinemania
While it suffers from some of the flaws of epics of this era-such as an overly sanitized portrait of life at the time, and anachronistic visions of fashion and lifestyle-Spartacus also boasts some stirring action and intelligent dialogue
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| Original Score: 72/100
Times [UK]
Douglas is terrific as the iron-jawed slave fuelled by righteous fury.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Guardian [UK]
The great-granddaddy of Ridley Scott's Gladiator hasn't lost any muscle tone after nearly half a century, and Kirk Douglas's direct, unpretentious performance as the great slave-rebel Spartacus is more engaging than ever.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Sky Movies
It is in the observation of human detail, and in many memorable little scenes that the film scores most heavily over other epics, and in which it finds an inner strength.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Film4
Arguably the greatest sword 'n' sandal movie of them all.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Arizona Daily Star
More than a standard good vs. evil drama, the movie is about a hero's inner struggle to persevere in carrying out an ideal that's almost certain to lead to his demise.
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| Original Score: 4/4
This may be the most literate of all the spectacles set in antiquity.
Movie Metropolis
...notable not only for its expected sword play and scenery, but for the genuine complexity of its characters, their relationships, and their political intrigues.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Asurprisingly apt companion piece to Paths of Glory in its consideration of the mechanisms of power.
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| Original Score: 4/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Decades later, it's still one of the most intelligent and stirring histrical epics to have come out of Hollywood, serving as a model for future generations of filmmakers.
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| Original Score: A-
