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However, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote: “ The most distracting nonsense is the pop-up of familiar faces in so-called cameo roles, jarring the illusion .” Shana Alexander in Life Magazine stated: “ The pace was so stupefying that I felt not uplifted – but sandbagged !” And John Simon – later notorious as the frequently scathing theater and film critic of New York Magazine – wrote in the National Review: " God is unlucky in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

His only begotten son turns out to be a bore.

" Bruce Williamson, in Playboy Magazine, likewise called the movie " a big windy bore.