| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 10, 2002

The Siege attempts to update the bluffs and counterfeints of the Cold War spy thriller, not to advance any ideological point but to obscure the fact that it doesn't have one.

| Mar 5, 2002

It's difficult to sustain a responsible subtext when you're delivering the jolts required to keep butts in the seats.

Full Review | May 11, 2001

Even at its most unbelievable, The Siege has the performances of Washington and Bening to fall back on, and a theme that understands that what's difficult is not choosing right from wrong but 'choosing the wrong that's more right.'

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Just about distinguishable from several dozen predecessors in the same apocalyptic vein.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The Siege may well be based on a huge 'what if?' premise, but it's smart, taut and knows exactly what the hell it's doing. And it does it well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The script is too muddled to be remedied by vigorous filmmaking.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[Benning] is the only fresh, compelling character in the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Could someone please turn down Denzel Washington's Righteousness Meter? It's set too high.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Typical summer popcorn fare.

| Jan 1, 2000

Washington and Ms. Bening play smart, interesting characters who never quite connect, while Willis turns himself into the loosest military cannon this side of Dr. Strangelove.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The prejudicial attitudes embodied in the film are insidious, like the anti-Semitism that infected fiction and journalism in the 1930s--not just in Germany, but in Britain and America.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The Siege is clumsily put together. Zwick is careless about plot details, so the movie is often needlessly confusing.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B- | Nov 6, 1998