Film · 1956 · Historical epic
The Ten Commandments
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
1956
★ 5.5 editorial score
American television has run it every Easter for over fifty years: DeMille parted the Red Sea with gelatin, dumped water and a reversed film, and nobody has topped the sheer nerve of it.
“For those who can accept the film’s Victorian theatricality, there is much to enjoy here, from the overpolished dialogue, which is full of quotable lines, to the domineering performances of Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as his nemesis, the Pharaoh Rameses.”
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