After stealing the show in Gladiator 2, I was pleasantly surprised to see my favorite Denzel Washington movie is now streaming on Hulu.

The Oscar winner always been at his best when he’s playing characters who wrestle with moral questions and personal shortcomings.

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have deteriorated across a venal land now ruled by a pale-faced emperor.