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Generally favorable reviews- based on 246 Ratings

  • Starring: Daniel Craig, Eric Bana, Marie-Josée Croze
  • Summary: 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) Expand
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  1. Positive: 30 out of 39
  2. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. 100
    As a thriller, Munich is efficient, absorbing, effective. As an ethical argument, it is haunting.
  2. 100
    Masterful, atypically political - and flawlessly acted.
  3. More than anything, Munich is a slammin' entertainment filled with dazzling set pieces and geometric camerawork.
  4. Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    60
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 86 out of 120
  2. Negative: 20 out of 120
  1. SeanP.
    10
    I'm very surprised this film didn't even make it to the 80s, especially with all the 100s it got from critics. But just consider this: it's very rare for Beraldinelli, Ebert, EW, and Empire to ALL give the same film a perfect score (it's hard for Beraldinelli and Empire to give a 100, period). Just this fact alone managed to make me ignore the rest of the critics who brought the film down to 74, and I watched it in the theaters anyway (something i usually only reserve for 75+ films). And yes, I agreed with all those 100s. It's one of Spielberg's best films, and that's saying a lot. You just need to be patient with it, not like, say, Jurassic Park. Collapse
  2. SatsS.
    8
    I really liked the movie, now i have a projects to do on the film techniques used in this movie, can anybody help me out?
  3. It's a solid movie. Good acting, Action is fine, and it is a bit suspensful at times. However, It never really breaks into that next level of greatest. It's a good movie but not that good. Expand
  4. T.M.
    4
    I recall that this film was nominated for best picture in the 2006 Oscar season. It was only nominated only because Spielberg can do no wrong in Hollywood, because this film is NOT best picture material at all. Repetitive, manipulative, overlong, hard to follow, muddled, unpleasant, sickening, and just not good at all. BTW, Lance (the person who loved the death scene of the female assassin), you are a real sicko. That was probably the most tasteless scene in a movie full of tasteless scenes. Did you revel in the image of her descrated body after the older guy pulled off the cover Eric Bana's character had draped over her? You have truly become desensitized by movies like this, if that's the case. Spielberg has lost it with this one. Expand

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