The Monuments Men

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    The Monuments Men
    2014

    Synopsis

    Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

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    Cast

    • George ClooneyLt. Frank Stokes
    • Matt DamonLt. James Granger
    • Bill MurraySgt. Richard Campbell
    • John GoodmanSgt. Walter Garfield
    • Cate BlanchettClaire Simone
    • Hugh Bonneville2nd Lt. Donald Jeffries
    • Sam HazeldineColonel Langton
    • Jean Dujardin2nd Lt. Jean-Claude Clermont
    • Bob BalabanPvt. Preston Savitz
    • Holger HandtkeColonel Wegner

    Recommendations

    • 75

      Rolling Stone

      Who knew? The work of the Monuments Men is fresh territory for film, and Clooney builds the story with intriguing detail and scope.
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      This is a solid albeit slow-building film with few dull moments.
    • 70

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      It’s a graceful, engaging film — I enjoyed it. But it could have been called "The Tasteful Dozen."
    • 70

      Village Voice

      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.
    • 67

      The Playlist

      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.
    • 63

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      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.
    • 60

      Time Out

      Clooney 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).
    • 58

      IndieWire

      Smothered by its lighthearted approach, The Monuments Men attempts to make a grand statement about the valiance of dying for the sake of art, but fails to create it.

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