The epic qualities of De Mille’s last directorial endeavor are impossible to ignore; consistently entertaining or not, the grandeur and scope are monumental.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 8, 2024

Great fun. This lovably corny Biblical epic is always entertaining no matter when you tune in on Easter night.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 29, 2022

The whole experience (with an interval) lasts roughly four hours. I am afraid that long before the time was up I was silently imploring Mr. DeMille to let his people go.

| Aug 9, 2022

...De Mille places each actor and drapes each Edith Head gown with such fastidious pride it's as if the hands of history, if not God himself, were responsible.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 3, 2022

It is all a grandly unrestrained act of regression to the infantile days of the cinema, which DeMille seems never to have outgrown.

| Nov 17, 2021

Whatever its dramatic and religious shortcomings, the film grapples -- and often tellingly -- with subject matter of great importance for this or any year.

| Jul 14, 2021

Cecil B. DeMille set out not just to be entertaining but to do as much justice to the Moses saga as he could, with as much awe and pomp and grandeur as the Fifties studio system could muster. He succeeded spectacularly.

| Apr 5, 2021

As The Ten Commandments hits its sixty-fifth anniversary, it is once again being celebrated and has been given a true makeover.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 29, 2021

The Ten Commandments may have been impressive for its time but the film horribly fails in its attempt to recreate the story of the Exodus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2020

Staggering as spectacle and inspirational as a Biblical tale, but it has to labor mighty hard to overcome the lamentable dialogue ("Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!") and the poor acting by virtually all of its leading players.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2020

Cecil B. de Mille's vastly expanded remake of his 1923 silent epic takes three hours and thirty-nine minutes to sit through, and the time, for me, often dragged heavily.

| Oct 17, 2019

It is more awe-inspiring than words can describe.

| Jul 3, 2019

What makes this film work - something that religious films recently have completely lost the thread of - is that it's not a sermon. It appeals by being compelling regardless of your religious allegiances.

| May 21, 2019

There is no other picture like it. There will be none. If it could be summed up in a word, the word would be sublime. And the man responsible for that, when all is said and done is Cecil B. DeMille.

| Apr 7, 2015

DeMille's direction of the action is superb and the various roles are played with feeling by a large and competent cast, headed by Charlton Heston.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2014

It seems as if some films are perpetually being restored, with each new version touted as better than the last. That said, I can assure you that the new DVD and Blu-ray edition of...

Full Review | Apr 21, 2011

DeMille's last film (he died in 1959) is also his biggest, most spectacular epic, excessive and lurid, displaying him as a showman--must see for Hollywood students

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 25, 2011

Stirring, even if it's as much showbiz as Bible.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2010

Bank holiday afternoon fare it might be, but DeMille's remake of his 1923 silent is a marvellous epic of the kind they don't make any more.

| Mar 4, 2008

A great big wallow, sublime hootchy-kootchy hokum, peppered with lightning that does automatic writing and an unsurpassed homage to the joys of jello.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 4, 2008