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

George Clooney's simplistic wartime art heist movie staggers between parody and sincerity, failing at both.

| Jan 2, 2018

If you've ever doubted how thoroughly a poor score can wreck an otherwise perfectly acceptable motion picture, get thee to 'Monuments Men.'

| Jun 18, 2016

The Monuments Men is okay, if you don't expect too much from it. It's a fine rainy-Saturday movie. But shouldn't we expect more from our art?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2016

I respect the inspiring story being told, but the film's screenplay doesn't have the necessary weight in its pages, or the depth in its characters.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 23, 2015

We may have gained something in humor by not taking the saviors in the art-rescue story very seriously, but we've lost just about all of the romantic pleasures of heroism.

| Sep 22, 2014

It is a little difficult to generate dramatic tension about an art-salvage project when there is a world war going on around it.

| Apr 28, 2014

The tonal uncertainty undermines complete engagement, taking the edge off both the drama and the comedy, leaving the film floundering episodically in no-man's-land.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2014

For all its tremendous production values, George Clooney's The Monuments Men is a profoundly frustrating and unsatisfying film. Clooney simply can't settle on a tone for the story he is trying to tell.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2014

This is by no means a short film, yet somehow none of the characters, or any of their detective work, has time to make an impression.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2014

Clooney the star schmoozes through on a gallon of charm and a pint of invention. He has said he might give up acting for directing. I think he already has.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 13, 2014

By no means a cheap forgery, but no masterpiece either.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2014

It's rare to find a movie that isn't ironic or aloof, especially in its overarching goal, to pay tribute to an unpopular enterprise that paid off for posterity.

| Feb 11, 2014

This displays none of the nimble-witted sleight of hand, nor indeed old-fashioned suspense, of Argo, the last historical caper movie with which Clooney was involved.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2014

A frustratingly flat film that drifts from moment to moment with a curious lack of urgency and an overbearing sense of self-importance.

| Feb 7, 2014

If The Monuments Men never overcomes its unwieldy structure and unevenness of tone, the film still manages to make a profound, even subtle point: that Hitler's darkest impulses and annihilating reach extended from human beings to history itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 7, 2014

Think of them as Inglorious Art Historians. Only this PG-13 entertainment has little of the edge, however complicated, of Quentin Tarantino's 2009 Holocaust revenge flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 7, 2014

It's like an over-the-hill gang variant on The Dirty Dozen, except not as much fun as that sounds.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 7, 2014

Clooney's movie is a slow-witted, occasionally agreeable retread of numerous WWII band-of-brothers flicks its director no doubt watched on 온라인카지노추천 as a 1970s teenager.

| Feb 7, 2014

This film is a collection of vignettes in search of a narrative center.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 7, 2014