Munich (2005)

All Critics (212) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (160) | Rotten (44) | DVD (34)

Everything that keeps it from being lovable could be looked upon as a virtue, and everything about it is intentional.

December 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Munich ricochets all over the place, but it hits its target dead-on.

December 27, 2005 Comment

Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Like the superior Syriana, this isn't a Middle Eastern tale that offers much hope. It's just bloodstained history. And if we don't remember that history, Spielberg says, we learn nothing.

December 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

The ultimate problem with Munich is that it's looking for a clear-cut answer that doesn't exist. And while it frames its final act as an argument, it's an argument it's having with itself.

December 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

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, multitasking story.

December 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Jack Mathews

New York Daily News

Top Critic

Across the board, the film's performances are sinewy and tough, elastic enough to bend with misgivings.

December 27, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

Munich is an important story to be sure but an important movie isn't the same as a great one. It's told in such a muddled way the message is easily lost, except for the moments when it is hammered home at the cost of story-telling believability.

April 8, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Spielberg described Munich as his 'prayer for peace,' yet his movie strangely lacks the eloquence and yearning of a prayer.

August 20, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Jay Antani

Cinema Writer

Laceratingly charged, thunderstriken virtually, by Spielberg's deeply felt moral analysis

August 30, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

There's about an hour's worth of greatness in Munich.

August 25, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Complex and powerful movie is for adults only.

July 16, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

A longing for home is the central core to Spielberg's powerful dissertation.

April 27, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Munich is one of those rare films that transcends art and taps directly into the consciousness of a hate-battered world.

February 28, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

... a worthy release that should definitely be part of everyone's collection.

July 10, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

Munich also succeeds where some of Spielberg's other films have not in its lack of his usual sentimentality.

July 10, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

Ever so subtly, Spielberg masterfully conveys the toll which the inordinate tension of their job and the mechanics of their methods take on his subjects' souls.

May 25, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Kam Williams

Upstage Magazine

Muddled liberal Zionist politics. Even worse as a film.

December 15, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

• 1. Hans: [the team is speeding through the city after getting away from a gunfight, killing another target, and taking a Greek porter. He is yelling in Greek as Hans yells at Robert] Are you capable of making something that actually works? You shut up! Does anybody know how to speak Greek?
  2. Carl: Did we kill a Russian?
  3. Steve: Where did you get your training? Every fucking bomb, every single one is fucked up!
  4. Robert: I wasn't trained to do this! I was trained to dismantle bombs, not to build them! [the team look at Robert in shock]
  5. Steve: Holy Shit.
  – Submitted by David O (2 months ago)
• 1. Avner: Are you Wael Zwaiter?
  2. Wael Zwaiter: Yes, and who are you? [Robert and Avner draw their guns out and point them at Zwaiter]
  3. Avner: Do you know why we are here? [Zwaiter tries to lower Avner's guns with his hand and speaks to him in arabic] Are you Wael Zwaiter?
  4. Robert: He said yes already, he already said yes. What do I do?
  5. Avner: Do you know why we are here? [Avner and Robert fire into Zwaiter's chest six times, to which he collapses and dies]
  – Submitted by David O (2 months ago)
• 1. Steve: [singing in the car while they wait for the explosion] Papa was rolling stone, wherever he laid his hands, was his own. Papa was a rolling stone...
  2. Carl: Steve shut up.
  – Submitted by David O (2 months ago)
• 1. Steve: Where's the explosive? It should have exploded by now. Whats going on?
  2. Carl: Its probably another malfunction.
  3. Steve: You know what, he has fucked up again! This is a waste of time!
  4. Carl: It could still work! [Hans grabs a grenade out of the bag] Hey, careful with that stuff Hans! [he exits the car and heads towards the apartment] Hans, get back here!
  – Submitted by David O (2 months ago)
• 1. Louis: I want $200,000 for one name.
  – Submitted by Javis C (2 months ago)