A grand, old-fashioned epic, this project is every bit as important as "Gladiator" or a new "Star Wars" episode.
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VarietyTodd McCarthy
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Bright, glossy, grandly scaled and dramatically stolid, 79-year-old writer-director Jerzy Kawalerowicz's longtime dream project mixes earnest religiosity with the depraved cruelty of Nero's Rome in the classic De Mille tradition.