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43 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversWho knew? The work of the Monuments Men is fresh territory for film, and Clooney builds the story with intriguing detail and scope.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThis is a solid albeit slow-building film with few dull moments.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt’s a graceful, engaging film — I enjoyed it. But it could have been called "The Tasteful Dozen."
- 70Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekThe 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.
- 67The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorTurns 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.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreClooney, 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.
- 60Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichClooney occasionally shows a surer hand: He gets great work from Downton Abbey’s Bonneville — notably in an emotionally charged scene revolving around Michelangelo’s Madonna of Bruges — and has a fine monologue himself, in which Stokes dresses down a high-ranking German commander (a moving encapsulation of the American spirit at its best).
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySomething less than monumental, The Monuments Men wears its noble purpose on its sleeve when either greater grit or more irreverence could have put the same tale across to modern audiences with more punch and no loss of import.
- 30VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasClooney has transformed a fascinating true-life tale into an exceedingly dull and dreary caper pic cum art-appreciation seminar — a museum-piece movie about museum people.