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OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh |
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| "[T]he brow-scrunching and ethical debates don't grow out of the assassinations, they merely follow them, and are not only inadequate but irrelevant." |
| Blogcritics.org |
| Alan Dale |
5/10 | "A thoroughly sickening motion picture experience." |
| Freeze Dried Movies |
| Brian Juergens |
B+ | "Bana's desperation is carefully performed, sold with golden Spielberg moments of intricate shot construction, some reaching Hitchcockian heights in their complexity and flair." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
4/5 | "a brave attempt to wrestle with the impossible" |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Chris Barsanti |
A | ""Munich" is at once a deeply disturbing and ardently effective film that operates successfully as a political thriller and as a cautionary tale." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Munich is about the shifting meanings the city's name took on after that dire moment, the shorthand it became for survivors, historians, and avengers." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
5/5 | "It is a thriller with a heart, a message movie with suspense. It is smarter than most Hollywood films could ever hope to be." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A+ | "The most intelligently directed film of the year, 'Munich' is a political thriller that sets its stage in 1972 and plays out in 2006." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
2/4 | "Rambling and naïve -- surely not what the director intended." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
1.5/4 | "...it's difficult to imagine just what Spielberg was hoping to accomplish with this disastrously inept piece of work." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B | "An uneven thriller." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2.5/4 | "Every time one's interest begins to lag there is a tense or memorably gory scene to pep things up when it's needed it most." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
4/5 | "Entre la complejidad casi documental de su trama y su impecable ejecución cinematográfica, las casi tres horas de duración no se sienten." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "One of his best films, a riveting political thriller that's as thought-provoking as it is exciting." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Daniel Craig echoes the sentiment of soldiers and architects for peace everywhere, "Let us do our job." That's all Spielberg is doing and he does it better than anyone." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
| "Munich also succeeds where some of Spielberg's other films have not in its lack of his usual sentimentality." |
| DVD Review |
| Felix Gonzalez Jr. |
| "Laceratingly charged, thunderstriken virtually, by Spielberg's deeply felt moral analysis" |
| CinePassion |
| Fernando F. Croce |
C+ | "For all its craftsmanship, the film never cuts to the bone...may not leave one cold, but at most it leaves you lukewarm; and in a tale like this one, that's just not enough." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
2/5 | "You cannot make a convincing case against terrorism by showing one graphic scene after another of cold-blooded murder." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
4/4 | "A film of uncommon depth, intelligence, and sensitivity, Munich defies easy labeling." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/5 | "A frequently powerful, gripping (if overlong) film, made all the stronger by the fact that Spielberg doesn't try to force-fit an audience-pleasing coda into the final act." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
2/4 | "Spielberg described Munich as his 'prayer for peace,' yet his movie strangely lacks the eloquence and yearning of a prayer." |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
3/4 | "A melodramatic yet accessible drama that's perfectly in keeping with the politically turbulent times." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
9/10 | "It's refreshing to see Spielberg operating outside his usual comfort zone in an open-ended public exploration." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
7/10 | "All in all, a great movie with an excellent showing by Bana, that dares to ask important questions about the ongoing issues in the Middle East." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
5/5 | "A thoughtful and moving film with a heart so many Hollywood productions fail to find." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
3.5/4 | "What struck me so stunningly by Steven Spielberg's latest, beyond its pure thrill ride appeal, is that so much goes on beyond the surface of our routine, monotonous lives to afford us the luxury of routine, monotonous lives" |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
4/4 | "Visualmente impecable, temáticamente poderosa y emocionalmente honesta, es una muestra de que el cine puede y debe tener un compromiso social que nos obligue a utilizar las neuronas." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
4/5 | "click to read review [Greek]" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
4/4 | "Let us start from the dual positions that sex can (potentially) bring us closer to God and that cinema, in and of itself, is a holy medium given to the transcendent." |
| Reverse Shot |
| Keith Uhlich |
4/4 | "Spielberg doesn't shy away from the violence, making it as extreme and disgusting as it should be." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B | "Spielberg's themes are often presented too broadly, with the human need for a place to call one's own hammered on until we expect to see ET himself phone home." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
4/5 | "Spielberg ha dejado algo claro: el ser humano sigue siendo la misma bestia sin razón." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
3.5/4 | "Spielberg and screenwriters Eric Roth and Pulitzer prize-winner Tony Kushner mute the superspy machinations in favor of examining the mission's personal and political ramifications." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "Devastating in its vision of political strife concentrated down to its fundamental human core." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
8/10 | "Eric Bana leads a cast of familiar actors in a tense but realistic looks at the dirty business of undercover work." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3.5/4 | "A great conversation starter that suffers from Spielberg's penchant for mass entertainment" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
3.5/4 | "It's inspiring that an ultra-successful director and a major Hollywood studio would have the guts to take on such an intense topic." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
A | "Spielberg and Kushner do not just show us all sides; they show Avner and his team all sides, and let the characters and the audience agonize over what they and we have become." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
3/4 | "Munich's equitable lip service to opinions all along the ideological spectrum proves less compelling than its portrayal of its lead character's crumbling sense of self." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "O filme mais corajoso da carreira de Steven Spielberg." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "[Spielberg] raises some serious questions about the efficacy of violence, it's just too bad he felt the need to sugarcoat the message in order to broaden the film's appeal" |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
4/5 | "The earnest, artistic approach is far too indulgent, but the themes the film examines are urgent and essential." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
3/5 | "There's about an hour's worth of greatness in Munich." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
4/4 | "A longing for home is the central core to Spielberg's powerful dissertation." |
| Projection Booth |
| Rob Humanick |
B+ | "[Its] greatest asset is the singular rejection of its director's characteristic optimism, presenting a tale that defies absolutes in favor of a messy, complex reality." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "A thought-provoking, powerful, uneven film about the costs of revenge." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
4/4 | "Spielberg's first R-rated film since Saving Private Ryan finds the director shedding the kid gloves that have minimized the impact of his recent thrillers." |
| Eclipse Magazine |
| Sean O'Connell |
10/10 | "Suspenseful, soulful and thought-provoking, it's relevant, incendiary and important. One of the best of 2005!" |
| Modamag.com |
| Susan Granger |
2/4 | "As good a film as Spielberg has made in decades. No worse and, alas, no better." |
| Film Freak Central |
| Walter Chaw |
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OFCS Rating: 84% Fresh |
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