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Munich
Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Distribution LLC
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong graphic violence, some sexual content, nudity and language
Starring
Eric Bana,
Daniel Craig,
Geoffrey Rush,
CiarĂ¡n Hinds,
Hanns Zischler,
and
Mathieu Kassovitz
Steven Spielberg directs an international cast in Munich, a gripping suspense thriller set in the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munch Olympics. This dramatic exploration inspired by true events follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it. (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Tony Kushner
George Jonas (book Vengeance)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Steven Spielberg
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 9, 2006
Theatrical: December 23, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
164 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg).

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Newsweek
David Ansen
A superbly taut and well-made thriller that jumps from Geneva to Rome, from Paris to Beirut, from Athens to Brooklyn, each lethal assignment staged with a mastery Hitchcock might envy.

100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Munich, Steven Spielberg's spectacularly gripping and unsettling new movie, is a grave and haunted film, yet its power lies in its willingness to be a work of brutal excitement.

100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Masterful, atypically political - and flawlessly acted.

100
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A film of uncommon depth, intelligence, and sensitivity.

100
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
This lengthy, nuance-filled story about how eye-for-an-eye stuff differs from theory to practice is one of the most considered, thoughtful, and involving movies of its kind.

100
Slate
David Edelstein
Munich is the most potent, the most vital, the best movie of the year.

100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
As a thriller, Munich is efficient, absorbing, effective. As an ethical argument, it is haunting.

100
Empire
Ian Nathan
This is Spielberg operating at his peak - an exceptionally made, provocative and vital film for our times.

91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Some will find the surprise pleasant, others unpleasant. Whatever it is, it's the least commercial, most somberly heartfelt movie ever made by the cinema's most commercially successful filmmaker.

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Breaking from the Spielberg oeuvre, Munich isn't a particularly hopeful movie, but it's a fair and morally dignified one.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Munich's even-handed cry for peace is not an act of equivocation but one of bravery. What Munich has to say, and its ability to say it to the widest possible audience, couldn't be more needed than it is right now.

90
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
A mesmerizing, richly nuanced inquiry into Israel's revenge of the Munich massacre of its athletes.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
For those who only recall Bana from his bland showing as Ang Lee's super-thyroidial meltdown monster, his performance here is a revelation.

88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The director can work wonders within his celluloid universe, but when the time comes to hand us back to reality, he stumbles. With this movie, that hurts.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
If Munich raises disturbing issues about Jewish-Arab relations, past and present - and how can it not? - it is also an absolutely riveting tale of the hunt and the hunted.

88
USA Today
Mike Clark
This is a smart and often tense work whose ultimate merit isn't completely calculable now.

88
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The thorny heart of Steven Spielberg's sober, fact-based political thriller about Israeli retaliation for the murder of 11 Olympic athletes by Palestinian terrorists is the knowledge that vengeance is a self-perpetuating murder machine that drags successive generations into a mire of tit-for-tat bloodshed.

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Bana is magnificent in the role.

80
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
More than anything, Munich is a slammin' entertainment filled with dazzling set pieces and geometric camerawork.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Would you feel anxiety or remorse if you pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden, however satisfying or even necessary it might be? Munich argues that finding him in our rifle sights would leave any of us a different person.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
With its protracted storytelling, its fuzzy philosophizing and its less-than-compelling leading man, it's far less gripping than the subject matter deserves.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
As a piece of filmmaking, Munich is rarely less than gripping. As a political essay, as a brief against despair, it is far less convincing.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
An unlovable movie. It's morally ambiguous, which means there's no real rooting interest. It's episodic, with the same kinds of episodes repeated over and over, so there's little sense of forward motion. It feels philosophically and politically confused, so there's no message to take from it.

70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Munich is at best a muddled prayer for peace whose weakness stems not from its politics but from the misconception of its main character. Avner is not just a fictional character, but an absurdly improbable expression of Spielbergian schmaltz.

70
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Munich is both astonishing and frustrating. It's not easy to tell how much of the tone comes directly from Spielberg and how much comes from Kushner, who was called in to polish the script after Roth completed it.

70
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Even if it wasn't exactly historically accurate (the film is only "inspired by true events," after all), innocents are killed in the crossfire all the time when these kinds of missions are undertaken, and it's a cop-out for Spielberg to pretend otherwise.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Munich is a Spielberg film for better and worse, a vivid, sometimes simplistic thriller in which action speaks louder than ideas.
63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's a brutal, merciless, somber picture, utterly devoid of the heart-tugging sentimentality that always creeps into even his best films.

63
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The failure of a movie that is so good in so many ways leaves me to wonder if Spielberg is up to this kind of complex, multi-tasking story.

63
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
It's when Spielberg stops trying to think so hard that Munich works best. Though some of the assassination scenes feel a little too choreographed, more "West Side Story" than "Bourne Identity."

60
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It seems almost disrespectful to weave in a provocative re-creation of the killings -- somehow a massacre of unarmed innocents that shocked the world should be more than just fodder for ginning up the tension at the end of a commercial movie.

60
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Beautifully made pic will spur newsy media coverage and possible consternation on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, but members of the general public will be glancing at their watches rather than having epiphanies about world peace.

60
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
If he had told the story straight, without such hedging, and at half the length, it would have borne far more conviction.

60
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
I cannot remember a moment in this new film that compares, simply in directorial originality, to the work in "Schindler's List."

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Bouncing about from one flawed movie to another, Steven Spielberg has lost his way of late, and Munich finds him more disoriented than ever.

50
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
The film is sluggish and repetitive, yet it exerts a certain clinical fascination.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Munich may have value as an act of expiation but not as entertainment or art.

42
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Munich is so broad-stroke it cuts itself at every turn. It's also a thoroughly lifeless movie.

40
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
It's too turgid and redundant to have any real impact. As a thriller, it barely thrills; as a lecture, it has nothing new to say.


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