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''Variety'' reviewer Todd McCarthy called ''Munich'' a "beautifully made" film. However, he criticized the film for failing to include "compelling" characters, and for its use of laborious plotting and a "flabby script." McCarthy says that the film turns into "...a lumpy and overlong morality play on a failed thriller template." To succeed, McCarthy states that Spielberg would have needed to engage the viewer in the assassin squad leader's growing crisis of conscience and create a more "sustain(ed) intellectual interest" for the viewer.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Todd McCarthy|title=Munich Review|work=Variety|url=http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117929081.html|date=December 9, 2005}}</ref>
''Chicago Tribune'' reviewer Allison Benedikt calls ''Munich'' a "competent thriller", but laments that as an "intellectual pursuit, it is little more than a pretty prism through which superficial Jewish guilt and generalized Palestinian nationalism" are made to "... look like the product of serious soul-searching." Benedikt states that Spielberg's treatment of the film's "dense and complicated" subject matter can be summed up as "Palestinians want a homeland, Israelis have to protect theirs." She rhetorically asks: "Do we need another handsome, well-assembled, entertaining movie to prove that we all bleed red?"<ref>{{Cite news|author=Allison Benedikt|title=Movie review: Munich|
Another critique was Gabriel Schoenfeld's "Spielberg's 'Munich'" in the February 2006 issue of ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'', who called it "[[wikt:pernicious|pernicious]]". He compared the fictional film to history, asserted that Spielberg and especially Kushner felt that the Palestinian terrorists and the Mossad agents are morally equivalent and concluded: "The movie deserves an Oscar in one category only: most hypocritical film of the year."<ref>{{cite web|last=Schoenfeld|first=Gabriel|url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/spielberg-s--munich--10025|title=Spielberg’s "Munich" Commentary Magazine|work=Commentary Magazine|date=February 1, 2006|accessdate=July 8, 2012}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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