Well-intentioned, handsome, and lifeless.

| Mar 4, 2020

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

When a movie features Ben Kingsley, in a hefty Ben Kingsley role, doing what Ben Kingsley does best, that's probably good enough in itself.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2018

The film fictionalizes setups and collapses factual details while trying to make Eichmann's extraction play out with conventional suspense; it ends up a poor cousin to Argo.

| Sep 27, 2018

Operation Finale is a film perfectly suited for the beginning of September. It'll keep you engaged in the moment, yet will disappear completely by the time the real awards contenders pop up in a few weeks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2018

Ben Kingsley's serene, "everybody sh*ts" reading of the character is a source of illumination around which everything else in the picture revolves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 31, 2018

The markings here are of a fiery potboiler, but "Operation Finale" never ignites.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 31, 2018

It's in the movie's lengthy middle sequence of verbal sparring between Malkin and Eichmann that Operation Finale comes into its own.

| Aug 30, 2018

The pacing is off from the first scenes, thick with exposition but skimpy on clarity.

| Aug 30, 2018

Operation Finale has the too-slow-burn of Argo-lite. Best intentions aside, director Weitz simply can't seem to master the high-stakes gambit of what is essentially an international kidnapping.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2018

The electrifying scenes between Kingsley and Isaac are even more riveting than the "can they get him" and "will they be caught" moments of spycraft.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 30, 2018

A compelling if somewhat low-key historical thriller, elevated by fine performances from Kingsley and Isaac.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2018

At its best, it's something to watch if nothing's on The History Channel; at its worst, [it's] a borderline banal representation of the banality of evil.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2018

As a more complete retelling of a particular moment of history... the film is a diverting watch, anchored with enough of Weitz's intriguing personal touches to keep it from feeling like a glorified History Channel special.

| Aug 29, 2018

Director Chris Weitz... delivers a dialogue-driven think piece that makes up in intelligent nuance what it lacks in unrelenting thrills or suffocating suspense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2018

Yes, Malkin grabbed Eichmann, but the film about how it all went down does not return the favor.

| Aug 29, 2018

Operation Finale, despite its other elaborations on the historical record, is engrossing and a little moving.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2018

Operation Finale is gripping and involving - but more often, the story slows to a crawl and actually becomes less involving just when we should be holding our breath.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2018

Tells a decent story well enough, but what does it want to say?

| Original Score: B- | Aug 29, 2018

It's neither great nor terrible, neither stylish nor unsexy, but exists in some serviceable compromise between both extremes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2018