A remarkable piece of entertainment quite unlike anything else in cinema history, though not so much in terms of its spectacle. DeMille was nearly 75 years old by the time The Ten Commandments was released, made at the end of a long career mostly spent in the silent era. His style never really changed all that much, which inadvertently becomes an advantage here. His “tableaux” compositions, a style common to silent films, work enormously well, with endless shots strikingly composed to resemble something like classical paintings (…) The acting, too, is of a type that would be ridiculous in a contemporary drama but entirely appropriate for these larger-than-life characters in a story literally of biblical proportions (…) The 1956 version of The Ten Commandments is a one-of-a-kind movie not to be missed. — Stuart Galbraith IV