Munich has a great cast and behind the scenes pedigree, but it feels like two films in one. One is an exciting action/heist film about a team of assassins. The other is an introspective film about retribution, family and land. The two don't fully mesh.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 30, 2025

The film’s indulgent length and deliberate pacing – combined with a remote, uncharismatic lead – can make it a slog to get through despite some thrilling set pieces that remain some of the best-directed sequences in Spielberg’s career.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2024

Violence begets violence in Steven Spielberg's bold and brooding thriller, beginning with the tragedy of the 1972 Munich Olympics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2024

It strikes me as an honest, relatively complicated and humane effort-in many ways, quite remarkable-and one that provides little comfort for defenders of the status quo, in Israel or elsewhere.

| Feb 14, 2021

When one takes into account what Steven Spielberg is looking to accomplish in the film, Munich is a a great piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 24, 2020

A daft and directionless thriller from Steven Spielberg, cynically hijacking Israeli-Palestinian tensions to fuel the engine of an over-heated action vehicle.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 15, 2020

Tony Kushner's story will upset every tidy theory about the origins of terrorism.

| May 7, 2020

Eric Bana gives a performance that deserves something more serious than an Oscar. It's a sublimely convincing portrayal of a man who is travelling far from who he is in order to defend who he is.

| Feb 12, 2020

A dark, unflinching portrait of moral ambiguity, as Spielberg abandons the saccharine sentimentality that has dogged most of his cinematic output of late.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Munich is a film that not only needed to be made, but one that could only be made by Steven Spielberg.

| Feb 4, 2019

"Munich" mutes Spielberg's hallmark sentimentalism to convey a more productive sense of ambiguity toward moral injustice, a crucible forged from our inability to empathize with the "other."

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 7, 2019

Munich's passion is clear, its intention good, the skill behind it immense; there is something brave about its decision to take politics into the multiplex.

| Sep 26, 2017

It's an incoherent film, as if Spielberg desperately wanted to say something important and could only come to the conclusion that killing is bad and we're all human.

| Mar 22, 2016

Munich is more measured and classy than Spielberg's action-adventures.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2015

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.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 8, 2011

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2010

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

| Aug 30, 2009

An utter masterpiece.

| Apr 29, 2009

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

| Original Score: B- | Aug 25, 2008

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

| Original Score: A+ | Apr 27, 2008