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Lou Lumenick, New York Post: An utterly clueless, relentlessly grim and rambling action epic guaranteed to displease devout Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, amuse atheists - and generally bore everyone. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: For all of the care and imagination that have been lavished on the production... the film's impact is best expressed by frequent aerial shots that are visually impressive and emotionally remote. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: Its grandiose set pieces feel empty and imitative (Scott pulled off this kind of thing much more successfully in "Gladiator"), and the whole picture feels glitzy and hollow at the core. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: The result feels less like a straightforward retread of the biblical narrative than an amped-up commentary on it: This "Exodus" comes at you in a heady and violent onrush of incident ... Read more
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: At least DeMille knew how to put on a show; the best this offers are a few bursts of Old Testament camp ... Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: "Exodus: Gods and Kings" has drawn fire for casting White actors in the major roles, but don't get too bogged down in that. Really, that's hardly the only reason to not like it. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: "Exodus: Gods and Kings" does a fair job of giving us what might be called The Second-Greatest Story Ever Told. What it never convinces us of is why. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie works well as big-budget spectacle despite a ho-hum script. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Momentous conversations periodically grind any retelling of the Moses story to a halt, but Scott keeps his head down, plows through and then gets out of the way while visual effects supervisor Peter Chiang and his slave army take it on home. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Admirably cogent, even colloquial, Exodus plows through its stages efficiently, methodically and without much Old Testament passion. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: "Exodus" is an exercise in visual trickery that reaches for nothing beyond the obvious. Read more
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com: An even better special effect would have been having a main cast that actually reflects the Mediterranean/North African desert environment...There are darker-skinned actors on the screen, though they just happen to be all slaves, servants and soldiers. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: Before you're able to get too distracted by Exodus' flaws, Scott reaches back into his bag of pixie dust and whips up another grand illusion. Read more
Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: No movie with such a limp ending can be fully satisfying, and the beginning also falters. But the long middle section is a rousing good show. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Scott is nothing if not a master orchestrator of chaos, and, both intentionally and otherwise, "Exodus: Gods and Kings" offers plenty of that. Read more
Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: Ridley Scott can't decide if making rivers run with blood is heroic or horrific - you sense he'd rather make Gladiator II: Attack of the Frogs. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: What this 3-D extravaganza gets spectacularly right is in putting the epic back into the biblical epic. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: This is spectacular entertainment, practically a theme park ride, that could have used more spirituality and soul. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "Exodus" turns out to be part of a time-honored tradition: the old-fashioned, super-spectacular Hollywood bomb. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A mish-mash - part half-committed melodrama, part half-thought-out political provocation. Read more
Mark Jenkins, NPR: Crowd-wowing CGI spectacle and the inevitable if inconsequential 3-D effects make Exodus look like pure product, without any defining vision. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: This eye-rollingly bad movie is silly, sluggish and miscast. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: "Exodus" is ludicrous only by accident, which isn't much fun and is the surest sign of what we might call a New Testament sensibility at work. But the movie isn't successfully serious, either. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Computer-generated imaging has advanced spectacularly over the decades, but moviegoers, and gamers, have been there every step of the way. Miracles aren't as impressive as they used to be. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The screenplay (credited to four screenwriters) is a mess, the pacing is uneven, the acting is inconsistent, and the experience as a whole is a letdown. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' is spectacular. Read more
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com: A numbing and soulless spectacle of 3-D, computer-generated imagery run amok, Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods and Kings" presents an enduring tale by pummeling us over the head with it. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Scott departs from Scripture enough to raise hackles. For example, this Moses sees God in the person of an insolent schoolboy (Isaac Andrews). Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: After a strong opening and a sagging middle, "Exodus: Gods and Kings" regains its stride and surpasses itself in the last third, when the God of Abraham unleashes a series of calamities on Egypt and the royal household. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Moses is imagined as if Scott met him on an awkward first date. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: We have no idea. What's the point of a Moses movie without a message from the mountaintop? Scott has broken the second commandment of a Bible movie: Have something to say and someone majestic to say it. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: This is the first portrayal of God I've ever encountered who looked like he could use a good spanking. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: While the pale skin tones (bronzer is selectively applied) and haphazard mix of American and British accents is distracting, it barely scratches the surface of Exodus's ungainly artificiality. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Director Ridley Scott ticks the visual "epic" box with Exodus: Gods and Kings, but leaves emotion in the dust by trading spectacle for a compelling story. Read more
David Ehrlich, Time Out: The ultimate takeaway is that if you can't finance a $140 million epic about ancient Egypt with racially appropriate actors, maybe you shouldn't make a $140 million epic about ancient Egypt. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: For an epic, there are, at best, only two clearly seen characters in Exodus. Read more
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Exodus: Gods and Kings is as uneven as Ridley Scott's career; at times, it seems to be a journey through the director's greatest strengths and weaknesses. The good news is that his strengths eventually win out ... Read more
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: It's understandable that people were angry about the whitewashing of Egypt. But no aspiring actor of color should think of this as an opportunity missed so much as a bullet dodged. Read more