The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
If he had told the story straight, without such hedging, and at half the length, it would have borne far more conviction.
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France, Canada, United States · 2005
Rated R · 2h 44m
Director Steven Spielberg
Starring Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre Action, Drama, History, Thriller
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
The New Yorker by Anthony Lane
If he had told the story straight, without such hedging, and at half the length, it would have borne far more conviction.
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.
The film is sluggish and repetitive, yet it exerts a certain clinical fascination.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
A film of uncommon depth, intelligence, and sensitivity.
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
A mesmerizing, richly nuanced inquiry into Israel's revenge of the Munich massacre of its athletes.
Masterful, atypically political - and flawlessly acted.
Entertainment Weekly by 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.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Bana is magnificent in the role.
Dallas Observer by 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.
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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