Financial Times
How it could have taken British cinema... until now to get to such a tantalising nugget? The answer might be suggested by the stodge of the results here.
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Six Minutes to Midnight
A horrific discovery at a school for the daughters of the Nazi elite leads to a series of deadly events in this true story war drama starring Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench.
The new English teacher (Izzard) at the Augusta-Victoria College (whose stern headmistress is played by Dench) soon finds himself running for his life from the police when the body of a former teacher is discovered.
2020Rating: M, Violence99 minsUK
DramaTrue Story & BiographyWarHistorical
- Director:
- Andy Goddard ('Set Fire to the Stars', 'A Kind of Murder')
- Writer:
- Andy GoddardEddie IzzardCelyn Jones
- Cast:
- Jim BroadbentJudi DenchEddie IzzardJames D'ArcyCarla Juri
Six Minutes to Midnight / Reviews
Los Angeles Times
There’s a perfunctory feel to its chases, shootouts, close calls and shadowy behaviors, as well as to the often transparent dialogue.
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The Guardian
Eddie Izzard... is bizarrely miscast in a deadpan-serious acting role for this weird, strained, second world war spy melodrama...
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The New York Times
The double-crosses are depicted by (Goddard) with better-than-average craft, but the more the movie leans into old suspense conventions the more interest it loses...
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Daily Telegraph
The combination of heart-on-sleeve and tongue-in-cheek could hardly seem less expert.
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Associated Press
The film is... rather rushed and seems disinterested in the details of its own story.
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Wall Street Journal
It's Hitchcock without the verve, a succession of generic chases, only one of which is any fun...
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New York Post
Goddard's film is far too aware of its subject's peculiarity, and every frame knows full well that something is a bit off.
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Variety
Unfortunately, the school's actual history remains more fascinating than the narrative written by Izzard, Celyn and Goddard.
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The Irish Times
Not even Judi Dench can save writer and star Izzard’s prewar romp from drab mediocrity.
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ABC
The crackerjack espionage thriller that might have been, the one filled with ideas and purpose, is defeated by flat execution.
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RogerEbert.com
The movie tells us at least three different stories at once and the spy story is the least interesting.
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The Times
There's a fascinating film... trying to escape from this creaky passion project of Eddie Izzard's.
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Daily Mail
Six Minutes to Midnight has a great title... a great cast (including Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent) and a great premise... Unfortunately, it's a desperately clunky affair...
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San Francisco Chronicle
A suspenseful film, made that way less from its prewar setting and the violence it contains, than by one man running - racing, really - to stop a conspiracy and prevent a disaster.
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Slant Magazine
Andy Goddard's film clumsily superimposes a frenzied, completely fictional spy adventure onto a fascinating fragment of pre-war history.
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