Annual Top Films Lists

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #148. George Clooney’s The Monuments Men

Published on February 10, 2014

The Monuments Men

Director: George Clooney
Writers: George Clooney and Grant Heslov
Producers: George Clooney and Grant Heslov
U.S. Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Balaban

Despite the treasure trove of acting talents, and a curious sounding true story, his fifth outing as a director is receiving its fair share of mixed reviews, but we’ll take anything that George Clooney and his prod. company Smokehouse Pictures develops.

Gist: An unlikely World War II platoon are tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.

Release Date: Wide release on February 7th.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).