The Monuments Men
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 7, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
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Mixed or average reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
27
Negative:
1
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88
ObserverRex ReedFeb 5, 2014
This is their story. It is true. It is history. As a film, it is riveting, suspenseful, harrowing and exciting, and somehow, it also manages to be something rare among war pictures—a big-scale entertainment. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 6, 2014
The film depicts a treasure hunt, only in the sense that the movie has to have a running story. But it doesn't really trade on suspense or adventure, and in the few places Clooney pushes it that way, it doesn't feel right. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickFeb 6, 2014
Except possibly for a superlative supporting performance by Hugh Bonneville of “Downton Abbey,’’ Clooney’s low-key directorial effort is not quite an Oscar-caliber movie, though it’s got a great cast, a worthy theme and plenty of things to reward adult moviegoers. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanFeb 6, 2014
If you’re worried that the re-teaming of Clooney and Cate Blanchett in a World War II movie signals something like “The Good German,” fear not: She’s better here, playing a French art historian who worries the Americans will “rescue” the art in order to steal it for their own country. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 4, 2014
This is a solid albeit slow-building film with few dull moments. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversJan 31, 2014
Who knew? The work of the Monuments Men is fresh territory for film, and Clooney builds the story with intriguing detail and scope. Read full review
70
TimeRichard CorlissFeb 6, 2014
Rather than juicing each element to blockbuster volume, Clooney has delivered it in the tone of a memorial lecture, warm and ambling, given by one of the distinguished academics he put in his movie. Read full review
70
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekFeb 4, 2014
The Monuments Men fails in its grand ambitions, but it's still satisfying in bits and pieces, like a busted statue. Even a tribute made of shining fragments counts for something. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinFeb 3, 2014
It’s a graceful, engaging film — I enjoyed it. But it could have been called "The Tasteful Dozen." Read full review
67
The PlaylistDrew TaylorJan 29, 2014
Turns out it was even trickier than originally imagined and that for all of its best efforts, The Monuments Men remains an unwieldy, overtly sentimental (but still emotionally distant) epic. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 8, 2014
Certainly, the story told by The Monuments Men is worth telling and it's easy to see why a luminary like Clooney would be sufficiently attracted to want to direct it. Unfortunately, this treatment, written by Clooney and long-time collaborator Grant Heslov, isn't the best fit. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayFeb 7, 2014
The Monuments Men often lets the schematic gears show, succumbing to threadbare formula and sentimental cliches rather than taut, sophisticated drama. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 7, 2014
Heart alone does not a good film make. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsFeb 6, 2014
It’s admirable, but Monuments Men just poses on a porous foundation like a statue. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFeb 4, 2014
Clooney, for the first time in his directing career (“Good Night, and Good Luck,” “The Ides of March”) never finds the sweet spot, and never quite wrestled the script into a shape entertaining enough to make the liberties he and Heslov took with the facts worth it. Read full review
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