Munich Critic Reviews

As a thriller, Munich is efficient, absorbing, effective. As an ethical argument, it is haunting.Read the full review

Munich is the most potent, the most vital, the best movie of the year.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

A film of uncommon depth, intelligence, and sensitivity.Read the full review

Breaking from the Spielberg oeuvre, Munich isn't a particularly hopeful movie, but it's a fair and morally dignified one.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

A mesmerizing, richly nuanced inquiry into Israel's revenge of the Munich massacre of its athletes.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

This is a smart and often tense work whose ultimate merit isn't completely calculable now.Read the full review