Best Movie of the Year

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2006)

In a year of really good movies, I believe MUNICH was the best of them all. It's a big movie that because it struck me on so many levels, felt very personal. While I realize that some people like to minimize Spielberg's work at times, this movie proves yet again that there is no filmmaker who can make a movie hum like he can. MUNICH is really a thrilling ride but it is not fun at all. It's exciting but it's painful. It's long and it feels like it never ends but (unlike A.I.) that was okay because it just works so well. In fact, I believe that this was Spielberg's message -- this movie is going to keep going and going, just like the cycle of violence that is represented. To make such a statement resonate, and do it in a way that sucks you into the story and the movie as an entertainment, shows just how ambitious and successful this film is.