Six Minutes to Midnight
IFC Films | Release Date: March 26, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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12
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1
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The TelegraphTim RobeyApr 1, 2021
The film is like a cheeky seaside postcard with swastikas and cryptography on the reverse. Read full review
58
Original-CinThom ErnstMar 26, 2021
Six Minutes to Midnight shifts focus between classroom drama and war thriller without allowing time for either genre to take shape. Read full review
50
VarietyAlissa SimonMar 26, 2021
Six Minutes to Midnight, helmed by Andy Goddard, wants to be a Hitchcockian thriller, but merely manages a familiar pastiche peopled with stock characters that should divert less-discriminating viewers. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 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
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennyMar 25, 2021
The double-crosses are depicted by the director Andy Goddard with better-than-average craft, but the more the movie leans into old suspense conventions the more interest it loses, alas. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 25, 2021
It’s a potentially intriguing bit of fiction that plays out in, at best, serviceable ways. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDan RubinsMar 23, 2021
Andy Goddard’s film clumsily superimposes a frenzied, completely fictional spy adventure onto a fascinating fragment of pre-war history. Read full review
40
ABC NewsPeter TraversMay 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
40
Time OutPhil de SemlyenMar 31, 2021
It’s a patchy but sincerely felt spy thriller that could be harshly described as The 39 Missteps. Read full review
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The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMar 26, 2021
It would be nice to say that Judi Dench, inevitably the headmistress, elevates the project, but even she can’t get gas back into the plummeting Zeppelin (wrong war, I know). Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 25, 2021
A lively idea for a drama, but the sheer oddity of the real-life premise slows it down. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Helen ShawMar 24, 2021
The movie is dogged by wobbly reasoning and dramaturgical lassitude, but at least one actor tries to spice it up. There are certainly other performers who emerge unembarrassed — Dench does a lovely turn from foolishness into new wisdom, for instance. But D’Arcy is as silly as the film itself and the only one who knows what movie he’s in. Read full review
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