Munich (2005) Review
Munich (2005) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Spielberg's coldest film and the one that cost him most. A revenge picture in which every success makes the situation worse, and the argument is in the arithmetic.
Daniel Craig’s casting as James Bond was met with organized public hostility, including a campaign website, largely because he was blond. Casino Royale ended the argument in its first twenty minutes.
He played the character across five films with a continuous emotional arc, which the series had never attempted, and No Time to Die gave Bond a definitive ending.
Layer Cake and Road to Perdition are the pre-Bond work worth finding, and Munich shows what he could do in an ensemble.
Knives Out and Glass Onion gave him a late comic register as Benoit Blanc, complete with an accent he clearly enjoys, and Queer moved him somewhere else entirely.
Ciaran HindsMunich (2005) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Spielberg's coldest film and the one that cost him most. A revenge picture in which every success makes the situation worse, and the argument is in the arithmetic.
Daniel CraigRoad to Perdition (2002) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A gangster film shot like a painting, about a man teaching his son a trade while trying to keep him out of it. Conrad Hall's last work…
Daniel CraigGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A tech billionaire's private island weekend where the solution is that the clever man has nothing inside. Better as satire than as a puzzle.
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Daniel Craig2006 Martin Campbell Bond film with Daniel Craig's debut. Eva Green as Vesper Lynd, Le Chiffre poker tournament, franchise hard reboot.
Daniel Craig2008 Marc Forster Bond film with Craig. Direct sequel to Casino Royale, Bolivia setting, Mathieu Amalric as Dominic Greene.
Daniel Craig2012 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig facing Javier Bardem. M's past returns, Bond's Scottish childhood home, Adele theme song.
Christoph Waltz2015 Sam Mendes Bond film with Craig. Christoph Waltz as Oberhauser-Blofeld, attempted retroactive franchise unification.
Daniel CraigNo Time to Die is the final entry in Daniel Craig's James Bond tenure and one of the most divisive Bond films in the franchise's sixty-year history. Cary Joji Fukunaga directed.
Angelina JoliePatrick Massett and John Zinman wrote. The film made approximately two hundred and seventy-five million dollars worldwide on a one hundred and fifteen million dollar budget.
Daniel CraigThe Trench is William Boyd's first and only film as director. He is better known as a novelist.
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