The film’s slow boil may push away those looking for a snappier or more action-oriented thriller.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Director Chris Weitz goes the historically true story route with Operation Finale, a mildly suspenseful mainstream film that suffers from being a bit too well-intentioned, wraps up too neatly, and the tension never heats up above a simmer.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Directed by Chris Weitz, this movie offers a Jewish perspective not often found in World War II films.

| Aug 12, 2021

It may be slow in spots and unsure of when to cut to black, but its educational and entertainment values are magnificent.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 7, 2020

In fact, the piece that sticks out the most is dubious: The script spends an odd amount of time depicting Eichmann's family life, and it borders close to sympathetic at points.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2020

This is an important story that should be told, but I don't think this is the essential version of it.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 9, 2020

The film works as a history lesson, a mission movie, and a story of the heart-breaking aftermath of an immense tragedy.

| Jun 23, 2020

This is a perfectly competent, steadily entertaining film.

| Mar 19, 2020

Well-intentioned, handsome, and lifeless.

| Mar 4, 2020

Operation Finale, skillfully directed by Chris Weitz, and driven forward by another superb score by Alexander Desplat, is crisp and absorbing and satisfying, both as a thriller and as a moral drama.

| Jan 7, 2020

"Operation Finale" may be admirable and noble, but so are the documentaries on A & E. This one needed to be more than just a good history lesson. It needed to be a great thriller.

| Oct 18, 2019

It's a powerful story, rife with tension, but the pace is uneven and we thought the acting too understated.

| Aug 20, 2019

[Operation Finale] reminds us that ultimate justice, true 'finale' judgment, is not up to us or even possible in this life.

| Aug 20, 2019

Operation Finale's climax, while offering a fair amount of excitement and anxiety, feels as though it borrows a bit too heavily from Argo, a better film whose final moments are more engaging and more nerve-wracking.

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

"Operation Finale" is a good movie, driven by a compelling story and some first-rate performances. It doesn't quite ascend to the level that it might have, but there's no shame in coming up just shy of greatness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2019

Put another way, director Chris Weitz didn't exactly need to Argo this up for us, but that's pretty much exactly what he does.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2019

The committed leads make Operation Finale worth watching, even though it never really gets to the core of its complicated moral debate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

The director struggled with the tone, sliding into comedy and breaking the emotional thread. The film was packed with potential as the script delves into a period of Nazi resurgence in post WW2 Argentina that has largely been ignored in media.

| Original Score: 3 | Jan 2, 2019

Despite its engaging performances, this real-life story about Israel's hunt for a war criminal moves through rote plot points with uninventive efficiency.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2018

An engrossing yarn, featuring a magnetic lead performance by Oscar Isaac.

| Dec 10, 2018