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

Date:

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 https://www.ericlavallee.com

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury 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 was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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