Simon Morris finds himself getting picky at the end of the year as Christmas movies start to clog up the cinemas. Instead he checks out Ridley Scott’s second blockbuster in a year, Gladiator II; a French film that sees a couple stranded at the bottom of the world – Suddenly; and a New Zealand documentary directed by Warrior Queen Lucy Lawless.

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