The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast c… - Pauline Kael

There is a dreadful discrepancy between Michelangelo's works and the words put into the mouth of Charlton Heston, who represents him here, and this picture — which is mostly about a prolonged wrangle between the sculptor and Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison), who keeps sweeping into the Sistine Chapel and barking, "When will you make an end of it?" — isn't believable for an instant.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Goodman: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Kael: I hate it. It is very creepy being imitated.