The Monuments Men

It was the greatest art heist in history

Ocean's Eleven goes to war, almost. Set during World War II, a group of art experts were assigned to follow the Allied armies and try to locate and recover whatever art, stolen by the Nazis, that they could find. At the end they found themselves in competition with the Red Army, who wanted the pieces as compensation for their financial losses. The storyline is unfortunately episodic, leading to a lack of character development.

122 minutes.
Parental Guidance 7-9 (Language, Violence).
Biographical, Drama, War, On the art circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban, Dimitri Leonidas
Director	George Clooney
Screenplay	George Clooney, Grant Heslov, from the book by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter
Music	Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography	Phedon Papamichael
Editing	Stephen Mirrione
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2014
Produced by	Columbia Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Smokehouse Pictures, Studio Babelsberg

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Action, biography, drama
Language	Low to mild impact
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Mild impact in context
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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USA MPAA rating

PG: Parental Guidance Suggested	Rated PG-13 for some images of war violence and historical smoking
Runtime	118
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 15 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith The art of telling a story well ...	5
Die Burger Riëtte Grobler Sterk ensemble verspeel kanse	10
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Fascinating film tells tale of effort to save art treasures hidden by Nazis	10
ReelViews James Berardinelli One gets the sense that The Monuments Men might work better as a longer form project. There's simply too much going on to cram into two hours and the end result is a feeling that pieces of the tale are being skipped while others are rushed through.	13
Rolling Stone Peter Travers What Clooney has crafted in The Monuments Men is a movie about aspiration, about culture at risk, about things worth fighting for. I'd call that timely and well worth a salute.	15
ScreenIt C. Fuchs While it's an admirable effort in terms of shining a light on this little known historical endeavor, The Monuments Men likely isn't going to be the first film someone grabs should any fire break out (or Nazis storm in looking for art to steal).	8
Metacritic.com 41 critics	10
Rottentomatoes critics 174 critics	10
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Its intentions are noble and its cast is impressive, but neither can compensate for The Monuments Men's stiffly nostalgic tone and curiously slack narrative.	7
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	11
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation	5
What the People say
Internet 3369 Netizens Big Fun, Big Heart, Old Fashioned	13
Average .. 49%	10