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

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

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

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

Let us start from the dual positions that sex can (potentially) bring us closer to God and that cinema, in and of itself, is a holy medium given to the transcendent.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 16, 2006

Steven Spielberg's most difficult film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2006

It's certainly the best mainstream thriller since The Insider, and an audacious political statement from a director who has everything to lose. Don't miss it.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2006

... riveting stuff ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2005

It's a smart, mesmerizing and often angry film, from a truly confident filmmaker, but it remains, maddeningly, just beyond our grasp.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2005

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2005

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005

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

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 27, 2005

Munich can't decide where to end, so we get six or seven possible finishes, each exhausting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005

Spielberg is simply reiterating that the Old Testament demand of an eye for an eye has left the world blinded and wandering in an endless cycle of reprisal. This is not exactly a philosophical or dramatic revelation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2005

Bouncing about from one flawed movie to another, Steven Spielberg has lost his way of late, and Munich finds him more disoriented than ever.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2005

Simply stated, Munich is Steven Spielberg's return to seriousness and his finest film in years.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 27, 2005

An impressive achievement by a man in touch with his art and his soul.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2005

A visceral, emotionally exhausting work that dares to ask questions -- and gives no easy answers.

| Dec 24, 2005

Munich is an action movie with a conscience, made by a filmmaker whose good work is still better than most directors' best.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Dec 24, 2005

It's enough to drive a person crazy, and as well put together as all of this is it is still hard to keep your interest focused upon the piece when it begins to feel like your watching the same scene stuck firmly on rewind.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 23, 2005