The International is an occasionally cartoonish gut shot at the banking industry, its heroes white as white and its villains black as black.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2023

This altogether self-serious thriller is a timely piece of conspiratorial intimation and multinational economic power and Tom Tykwer’s direction is both sleekly handsome and efficiently anonymous...

| Aug 19, 2023

Assassins are no match for Clive Owen's powerful stare; it's all he ever brings to a gun-toting engagement, and it usually suffices.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 28, 2020

The International is a thriller that [stokes] the viewer's feelings of outrage and injustice as every fresh enormity by the bank is revealed, and then offering the possibility of vicarious revenge.

| Nov 20, 2020

With a storyline so relevant and timely why does The International feel so dated and predictable?

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

But, despite its topical story and rip-roaring, globe-trotting narrative, it all falls a little bit flat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2019

Whatever happened to the old fashioned spy sagas which had breakneck chases, busty women and non-stop action? Now it's all brooding fellows with sad back-stories.

| Apr 26, 2019

The International grabs you from the get-go with one of the most dramatic openings in a while.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 11, 2018

The International continues in this tradition of telling us what we already know to our sorrow. Somebody tell us something we don't know!

| Oct 31, 2018

The premise might be timely, but the execution is same old, same old.

| Aug 29, 2018

A sure-footed and thrilling sidestep into cinema's mainstream.

| Jul 6, 2018

As for the direction, Tykwer seems more enamoured with architecture than with his actors.

| Jan 2, 2018

What is this movie about? I had to keep asking myself this question while suffering through not one, but two hours of The International.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 12, 2017

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Take away the Guggenheim shootout and we've at least got Clive Owen at half throttle. Take away Owen and there's nothing left but the tired old mystic cabal of sadistic sorcerers.

| Aug 16, 2011

| Original Score: C+ | May 6, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 9, 2011

...an exceptional thriller that's consistently elevated by the uniformly superb performances and Tom Tykwer's subdued yet stylish directorial choices.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 5, 2010