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- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 3 h 28 m
- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 3 h 28 m
Summary The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
Directed By: Otto Preminger
Written By: Dalton Trumbo, Leon Uris
- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 3 h 28 m
- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 3 h 28 m
Exodus
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Summary The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
Directed By: Otto Preminger
Written By: Dalton Trumbo, Leon Uris
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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82% Positive
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18% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
70
82% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Intelligence applied exactly where it is most rare: in the lavish, star-studded epic. Otto Preminger’s 1960 film, based on the Leon Uris novel, makes fine use of dovetailed points of view in describing the birth pains of Israel.
A dazzling, eye-filling, nerve-tingling display of a wide variety of individual and mass reactions to awesome challenges and, in some of its sharpest personal details, a fine reflection of experience that rips the heart.
Based on the Leon Uris bestseller, the movie itself remains a leisurely, unevenly acted yet fascinating history lesson that helps put recent Middle East events in perspective. [01 Oct 1992, p.G3]
Trumbo's dialogue has its corny moments, purple patches and inevitable preachy passages, and the cast is jarringly uneven...but on the whole Exodus is a formidable accomplishment embracing suspense, danger, passion, romance, politics, religion, intrigue, sacrifice and bravery in an entertaining fashion for 3 1/2 hours. [10 Sep 1998, p.F12]
Otto Preminger's adaptation of Leon Uris' best seller about the founding of the state of Israel occasionally threatens to collapse under its own weight, but a strong cast, including Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Lee J. Cobb and an Oscar-nominated Sal Mineo, helps maintain focus. [08 Nov 2008, p.C10]
It's a tough slog, but worth seeing once. [08 Nov 2008, p.4C]
Watchable mainly for the sheer skill and drive of Preminger's direction, although at 220 minutes even that long outstays its welcome.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Laurel Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
