Six Minutes to Midnight

Name: Six Minutes to Midnight
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: March 26, 2021
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Bianca Nawrath, Carla Juri, Daria Wolf, David Schofield, Eddie Izzard

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IFC Films | Release Date: March 26, 2021 | PG-13

Starring: Bianca Nawrath, Carla Juri, Daria Wolf, David Schofield, Eddie Izzard, Franziska Brandmeier, James D'Arcy, Jim Broadbent, Joe Bone, Judi Dench, Kevin Eldon, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Nigel Lindsay, Rupert Holliday-Evans

Summary: In the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.

Director: Andy Goddard

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 99 min

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Stephanie Zacharek

Mar 29, 2021

Six Minutes to Midnight is a tribute to those real-life girls who, as guests from a land that would soon become a vicious enemy, represent a strange little intersection of English and German history—the human element behind symbols clashing on a badge. Read full review

Lindsey Bahr

Mar 25, 2021

Six Minutes to Midnight is entertaining enough if a little underwhelming. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Mar 26, 2021

It's less effective in the run-with-a-gun scenes, as is the acting and the writing, which all fall off sharply in the final third. The issues of individual, cultural, and national loyalty—and when and how to respond to aggressive actions by other nations—are relegated to the background of some weak chase scenes and plot twists. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Mar 25, 2021

It’s a potentially intriguing bit of fiction that plays out in, at best, serviceable ways. Read full review

David Rooney

Mar 26, 2021

Admirers of old-fashioned British war drama should find this passably entertaining, and the dazzling green Welsh countryside and seafront locations that stand in for England's Southeast coast are certainly pleasing to the eye. But handsome production values can't disguise shaky storytelling that relies almost entirely on composer Marc Streitenfeld's agitated orchestral score to stoke suspense. Read full review

Peter Travers

May 24, 2021

It’s a juicy premise: Eddie Izzard’s British spy vs. a school for daughters of the Nazi high command run by the great Judi Dench. But the crackerjack espionage thriller that might have been, the one filled with ideas and purpose, is defeated by flat execution. Read full review

Brad Wheeler

Mar 31, 2021

The photography is elegant, but nothing else is. With action that is standard and not at all tense, the melodrama is much higher than the reward. Read full review

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umaumai

Jun 17, 2021

It’s an interesting piece of history, but I’m not sure if any of it is movie worthy. It’s not a bad movie overall, it just lacked something that while I was watching it I couldn’t be bothered to figure out exactly what it was missing. Maybe it was the pacing or the story in general. ThereIt’s an interesting piece of history, but I’m not sure if any of it is movie worthy. It’s not a bad movie overall, it just lacked something that while I was watching it I couldn’t be bothered to figure out exactly what it was missing. Maybe it was the pacing or the story in general. There was one or two very good twists, but I’m hard pressed to say that I really witnessed any stand out acting from anyone. Everyone plays their part well, but the whole thing is basically a Hollywood trope wrapped and a pre-war girls academy that says very safe and does everything to not offend by offering anything of real interest or intrigue. I can’t say that I can think of anyone I’d recommend this to.… Expand

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