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

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

With a running time of nearly four hours, Cecil B. De Mille's last feature and most extravagant blockbuster is full of the absurdities and vulgarities one expects, but it isn't boring for a minute.

| Mar 4, 2008

DeMille remains conventional with the motion picture as an art form. The eyes of the onlooker are filled with spectacle. Emotional tug is sometimes lacking.

| Oct 19, 2007

An epic soap opera of an event -- the running time is longer than any church service -- that still impresses more than it amuses.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2006

As much a testament and a fixture of traditional American ideals and affections as a courthouse display of the stone tablets, and as weighty and solid.

| Original Score: A | Apr 12, 2006

It's the gigantic vulgarity, the obsessive righteousness of the director himself, which keeps the show on the road and suffuses the movie with its daft power.

| Feb 9, 2006

My, how times have changed!

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2004