“Gladiator II” opens 16 years after the death of Russell Crowe’s Maximus with an impressively staged battle sequence that establishes a time of great violence and a pair of central characters: the Roman General Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal) and a refugee from Rome named Lucius Verus aka “Hanno” (Paul Mescal). Acacius leads his …

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