Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The Atlantic
This is the first portrayal of God I've ever encountered who looked like he could use a good spanking.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
This eye-rollingly bad movie is silly, sluggish and miscast.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : 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.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : 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.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : 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.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : 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.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : 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.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : 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.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : 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.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : 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.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : 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.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : 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.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : 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.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
A mish-mash - part half-committed melodrama, part half-thought-out political provocation.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
You'll leave humming the plagues.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : 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 .

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : 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.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : 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.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Moses is imagined as if Scott met him on an awkward first date.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
What this 3-D extravaganza gets spectacularly right is in putting the epic back into the biblical epic.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : 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.

Name : Stephen Farber / Alias : 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.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : 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 .

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
"Exodus" turns out to be part of a time-honored tradition: the old-fashioned, super-spectacular Hollywood bomb.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
This is spectacular entertainment, practically a theme park ride, that could have used more spirituality and soul.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Admirably cogent, even colloquial, Exodus plows through its stages efficiently, methodically and without much Old Testament passion.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : 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.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Richard Roeper.com
'Exodus: Gods and Kings' is spectacular.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out New York
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.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : 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).

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
At least DeMille knew how to put on a show; the best this offers are a few bursts of Old Testament camp .

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
"Exodus" is an exercise in visual trickery that reaches for nothing beyond the obvious.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Bland, overly long and otherwise forgettable.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : 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.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : 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.

Name : Mark Jenkins / Alias : NPR
Crowd-wowing CGI spectacle and the inevitable if inconsequential 3-D effects make Exodus look like pure product, without any defining vision.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The movie works well as big-budget spectacle despite a ho-hum script.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : 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.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : 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.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
For an epic, there are, at best, only two clearly seen characters in Exodus.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The whole production speaks well for the power of film; it's a serious stunner.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
Director Kornel Mundruczo goes big with allegory, violence, drama and sentiment, and the results are riveting.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
By turns Dickensian, Marxist and dystopian, it's a movie as deliriously unclassifiable as it is expertly focused in its desire to provoke and entertain.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
A mixed-genre fable that evokes Dickensian melodrama, coming-of-age tropes and outright horror.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
This gripping suspense story considers how any canine can become the unfortunate repository for its master's darkest impulses.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
It all pays off with an astounding, extended climax that is as rousing and exciting as it is frightening - one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had watching a movie.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The hand that feeds - and also brutalizes - is righteously bitten in "White God," a Hungarian revenge fantasy that's like nothing you've seen on screen before.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
A B revenge movie with A-plus direction by Kornel Mundruczo and a cast of canines so personable that even when they tear out people's throats you still want to take them home.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Even those who don't buy in completely to Mundruczo's parable will be impressed by his canine crowd scenes, staged with ambition, skill and genuinely original vision.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
What it all means is open to interpretation. Read it as a parable or as a horror movie. Read it as the story of love between a girl and her dog. Read it however you want. No matter what your take, you won't be disappointed.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
White God offers a dark - very dark - take on the way humans exert authority, and superiority, over our fellow creatures.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
When the violence gets unbearable, take comfort in the troop of trainers on the sidelines who prove that, for now, man and beast still make a good team.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
This powerful Hungarian drama features the Al Pacino of dog actors.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Rarely does a film's execution achieve or even exceed its director's ambitions, but Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" is that rare movie.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The more you command it to sit and stay-to settle down as a plausible plot, or to cohere as a political fable-the more it slips its leash and runs amok.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Kornel Mundruczo's sixth and best feature is an emotionally rousing, technically masterful man-vs.-dog adventure.

Name : Bruce Ingram / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Unfortunately, whatever satisfaction you may derive from seeing assorted nasty human beings get what's coming to them for betraying the trust of man's best friend is watered down by vague social and political allegory.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The obviousness of the message - follow the right leader - would be more tolerable in a less badly acted, less shoddy-looking film.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
A rousing creature-feature thriller and political allegory, from Hungarian director Kornel Mundrucz.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo downplays White God as a "genre experiment," but his film has real bite regardless.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Intriguing, but the movie's larger statement isn't clear.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Think "The Incredible Journey" crossed with "The Birds" crossed with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Or maybe just imagine "Cujo" as told from the dog's point of view. Don't take grandma.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
It's ruthless but sentimental, gritty but fanciful, drop-dead serious but also a little impossible to take seriously.