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Ben Lyons, At the Movies: I was really disappointed. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Some thrillers settle into a rut of adequacy, rarely spiking above or below the baseline. Not The International. Director Tom Tykwer's new picture is all over the place, geographically and in terms of audience satisfaction. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Garbled at times, the movie still hums along with attractive, smooth efficiency. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The International, a sleek travelogue thriller, at least flirts with timeliness, winking at an angry and anxious public mood. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: A slow road to nowhere, less clunky than The Interpreter but bogged down by its own cynicism. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This unwieldy product, with its swathes of expository dialogue, might have been titled Expain Clive Explain. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A bad picture filled with cryptic someones going through the motions of a spy thriller. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Everything about it is good-looking, tautly paced and sophisticated; what it isn't, unfortunately, is memorable. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: The International is strewn with wild improbability, but that hardly deters from its appeal. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Its premise aches with timely resonance. It's directed with meticulous artistry. So why does it ultimately feel so empty and forgettable? Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The pace is fast and the action, particularly a mind-boggling shoot-'em-up in the Guggenheim Museum, furious enough. But the less-conventional elements are in many ways even more effective. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A fairly good thriller with mixed-bag elements: preposterous plot, smartly elegant direction, one of the worst recent performances by a major actress, and a dynamite stick of an action scene that can stand close to the greats. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The International isn't top-form Tykwer, but it's handsome and adamant, and now's as good a time as any for some out-of-control greedy-banker-bashing. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The sour taste of revenge is pretty sweet here. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The International is a sleek, engaging example of a peculiar form of escapist entertainment, a favorite, in fact: It's a thriller that eases us away from our present worries without fully erasing a resonance with life beyond the multiplex. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Taut and amazingly timely, The International is a conspiracy thriller that harkens back to the perilously paranoid '70s. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The star of the pic may well be NYC's Guggenheim Museum and Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, both of which figure in cool action chase sequences that pay handsome dividends. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: The International is equal parts globe-trotting thriller and architecture porn, as perfectly crystallized by its mind-blowing central set piece: a seemingly endless shootout at the Guggenheim Museum. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: The script tries to explain how this improbable alliance happened, but it never does make much sense, which is a recurrent theme in this overly complicated conspiracy tale. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: No matter how slick the film looks -- every cool-toned frame could transform into a Lexus commercial -- the undercurrent is very, very real, by which I mean hopeless Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's got some effective moments and aspects, but the film goes in and out of plausibility, and its elements never manage to unify into a coherent whole. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: What, might you ask, is the cause of all this cloak-and-dagger skullduggery? Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to bore you. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Killer banks may be new to the movies, but there's nothing else original in this if-it's-Tuesday-this-must-be-Istanbul thriller, with its portentous globe-hopping and racing through colorful street bazaars. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Perhaps it's best not to think so much and simply be swept along -- by Clive Owen, Naomi Watts and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR: Having made a bank their villain %u2014 a bank, mind you, not a banker %u2014 director Tom Tykwer and his screenwriters have pretty firmly captured the zeitgeist. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The International almost seems like a Monty Python spoof on spy-game thrillers in which the phrase 'secret agent' is constantly replaced by 'banker,' resulting in lines like, '...If I die, 100 other bankers take my place.' Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: One of those movies sponsored by an international conglomerate that lectures us about how all international conglomerates are corrupt. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: This movie is a fiction -- and it makes no sense at all. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's a film that, mad as it sometimes seems, gives you things to chew on. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Where Run Lola Run was like a perpetual-motion machine, The International seems to forever be stopping in its own tracks. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The International possesses the look and feel of a thriller, but not the heart or soul of one. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Impossible to follow the plot but easy to appreciate the thrilling shootout at the Guggenheim. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I enjoyed The International. Clive Owen makes a semi-believable hero, not performing too many feats that are physically unlikely. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OK, it doesn't tell you much about the role of banks in the current economic free-fall. But if you want to know, it's a humdinger of a stimulus package. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The International is so self-assured, so assertive in its devotion to craftsmanship, that it proves Tykwer is continually building on his promise as a filmmaker, not squandering it. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The International won't go down as an action thriller for the record books, but it's a pretty good one for right now. First of all, the villain is a bank. How's that for timing? Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The International is a film I liked enough that I wished I liked it better. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: An action thriller with some decent action and a few thrills, but all embedded in a yarn so hopelessly tangled that even the loose threads have knots. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A film that squanders a golden opportunity to make money on the current economic meltdown. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Eventually, you just let the tangled double-crossing take care of itself and enjoy the way the film defiantly bucks the contemporary thriller trend for shaky-cam coverage and lightning cuts. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: It's betwixt and between, neither smart and understated enough to be le Carre-like nor stylish and energetic enough to be Bond-Bournian. Read more