Munich Critic Reviews

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

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

Munich is a Spielberg film for better and worse, a vivid, sometimes simplistic thriller in which action speaks louder than ideas.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

More than anything, Munich is a slammin' entertainment filled with dazzling set pieces and geometric camerawork.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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