Valkyrie

The mechanics of the actual plot are pretty amazing. Singer has assembled a top-notch international cast.Read Full Review »

Valkyrie, despite being a more straightforward thriller, is less gripping than "Downfall," the most recent film in which Hitler had significant screen time.Read Full Review »

Tom Cruise is perfectly satisfactory, if not electrifying, in the leading role.Read Full Review »

Once Singer dispenses with the introductory pathos and gets to the nuts and bolts of Stauffenberg's plan, Valkyrie becomes an admirably modest and compact suspense thriller.Read Full Review »

A perfectly acceptable motion picture. The only thing that keeps it from even greater accomplishments may be inherent in the story itself.Read Full Review »

A brutally efficient bit of storytelling, and it makes no unforced errors. It is admirably free of any Spielbergian effort to squeeze sentimentality or inspirational lessons out of what is a complicated and morally complex story.Read Full Review »

Tom Cruise starring in the fact-based story of a plot to kill Hitler by Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg sounds like Oscar bait. It isn't. And the sooner you accept it, the more fun you'll have at this satisfying B movie.Read Full Review »

It's a smooth, compelling, almost suspenseful (more on that in a bit), and slightly hollow Hollywood period piece.Read Full Review »

If Mr. Cruise doesn't work in Valkyrie, it's partly because he's too modern, too American and way too Tom Cruise to make sense in the role, but also because what passes for movie realism keeps changing, sometimes faster than even a star can change his brand.Read Full Review »

Neither a masterpiece nor an embarrassment, but a workmanlike picture that sits, inoffensively, in the middling space between.Read Full Review »