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Movie Overview
Cast
Charlton Heston
Jack Hawkins
Stephen Boyd
Director
William Wyler
MPAA Rating
G
Ben-Hur (1959)
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OFCS Rating: 89% Fresh
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4/5
"It is one of the most resplendent films you'll ever see."
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
C
"Mostly tedious Sunday school tale."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
"Shows how difficult forgiveness is once the heart has hardened in hate."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
3/5
"Widescreen biblical epic is bloated with spectacle and thin on plot."
Netflix
James Rocchi
4/5
"Charlton Heston plays Charlton Heston, but his charismatic macho woodeness carries the film like no other actor of his day."
ToxicUniverse.com
John A. Nesbit
8/10
"...not only a rousing adventure, at its core it has a genuine heart."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
9/10
"
Ben-Hur
is not great art. But it is great fun."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
A
"The grandest of Hollywood's classic biblical epics doesn't transcend its genre, with its spectacle and melodrama, but it does these things about as well as possible."
Decent Films Guide
Steven D. Greydanus
3/4
"The kind of sweeping pseudo-biblical epic that Hollywood was famous for. If not for Heston's weak performance and Boyd's ludicrous one, the film might have been better."
Oscar Guy
Wesley Lovell
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