The Six Triple Eight

Netflix | Release Date: December 6, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 6, 2024
Impressive in both its subject and suggested scope, Perry’s sweeping film reflects how the achievement of these women directly impacted the troops’ morale, despite the adversity they faced from skeptical superior officers. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDec 6, 2024
The Six Triple Eight relates a little-known story that fairly demanded to be told, and does it full justice. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussDec 5, 2024
Grading on the Tyler Perry curve, though, “The Six Triple Eight” respects its noteworthy topic — and its audience — as much as it possibly could. Read full review
70
ColliderJason GorberDec 20, 2024
Even the most jaded may be swayed by Perry’s latest demonstration of his skills at making movies that work simply but that also simply work. Read full review
70
The New York TimesLisa KennedyDec 19, 2024
The drama lands many of the beats of the Greatest Generation genre and its subgenre: Black service members battling on two fronts. But familiarity doesn’t halt it being illuminating and affecting. Read full review
63
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiDec 21, 2024
It never quite kicks into high gear, and plays a lot more like a TV movie from the 1990s — a very good decade for historical TV movies — than a major feature in the 2020s. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 21, 2024
Perry’s sympathetic treatment of this history — stay through the credits — is laudable, and no one can ever say he can’t turn out slick to the point of immaculate melodramas. These ladies are so smartly made-up and prepped for their closeups that it calls to attention how tidy and sterile this cinematic war is. It barely looks lived-in, much less fought. Read full review
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IndieWireVikram MurthiDec 6, 2024
From beginning to end, The Six Triple Eight never trusts its audience to actually engage with the material beyond its inspiring surface, evidenced by a lengthy coda featuring title cards that literally restate the film’s plot over archival footage of the 6888th Battalion. Unsung heroes deserve better. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeDec 22, 2024
Unfortunately, Perry drenches the tale with his trademark syrupy ineptitude, creating a gloopy, turgid plodder. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyDec 21, 2024
The film is torn between the conflicting instincts of sassy playing to the gallery and sanctified mush. Read full review
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Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonDec 21, 2024
This story and these women deserve better. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonDec 19, 2024
There are few moments in the film—one that is wearyingly indignant and emotionally inert—that feel genuine. Read full review
40
The GuardianJesse HassengerDec 6, 2024
It’s the kind of movie that could be charitably described as “educational”, though probably not as much as the magazine article that serves as its source material. At least we know Perry is true to history in one major way: today, as was the case back then, these women deserve better. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreDec 6, 2024
The Six Triple Eight is about people who received no public recognition for their achievements at the time, but in trying to give them their belated due onscreen, this clunky excuse for a war movie ends up being more about what they endured than about what they accomplished. Read full review
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