The Monuments Men is incredibly disappointing, not just because it involves great actors, but because this story is actually really great and deserves a better adaptation than what we see here.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 12, 2024

The comedic tone, in the best M.A.S.H. (1972) series fashion, is gratifying and lightens the solemn burden of the not-so-subtle messages. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 1, 2024

The monumental star power behind this amiable but rather soft-boiled war film goes some way towards papering over the narrative cracks.

| Feb 5, 2024

The Monuments Men puts the spotlight on a group of heroes tasked with saving stolen art but the film's mixed tone prevents it from being a better film.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2024

As a lover of the fun ensemble war pictures that were all but gone by the end of the 1960s, Clooney’s vision and approach hits the target.

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

Devoid of urgency and intent on soapboxing, The Monuments Men takes a tremendously significant story and reduces it to an abbreviated, largely joyless experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 18, 2022

If anything, this is a film of firm admiration a good-hearted salute to some of the wars unsung heroes who risked it all to help preserve a unifying culture in limbo.

| Feb 11, 2022

With this World War II fact-drama drama that just lingers, unsure of what it wants to be, actor/director George Clooney argues that protecting a thousand works of art is worth the cost of a single life.

| Jan 22, 2022

An earnestly told story but the lack of any real energy or surprises undermines its effectiveness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2021

To adequately fill a two-hour movie, greater creative liberties should have been employed to offer a tighter pace, heightened adventure, and more moving poignancy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It's definitely not a coincidence that the film was pulled from its pre-Oscar consideration calendar date and placed squarely into the land of forgotten films.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 17, 2020

Sadly, on reflection, one cannot think of a single moment in The Monuments Men that is genuinely challenging to conventional wisdom, or even surprising.

| Aug 13, 2020

The tone was very confused.

| Apr 27, 2020

It was just really kind of flat.

| Apr 27, 2020

It may not dig very deep, but it's an effortlessly entertaining homage to the Golden Age of Hollywood that packs a surprising emotional wallop.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 4, 2019

Undeveloped characters and no clear narrative waste a fascinating story and profound theme. This is a monumental mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2019

The Monuments Men is a buddy movie, an adventure film, and a throwback to less cynical times.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 17, 2019

The Monuments Men feels like a monumentally wasted opportunity.

| Jan 25, 2019

It's certainly enjoyable seeing this great group of actors...get to work with each other, given time to build moments and reactions, albeit the film's insistent score sometimes overwhelms the action.

| Original Score: B | Jan 17, 2019

Clooney is trying to push the merit of the material a touch too much; a fact betrayed by the amount of times his character ventriloquises the film's two main morals.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2018