Valkyrie
United Artists | Release Date: December 25, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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19
Mixed:
16
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireDan Jolin
A film more concerned with 'how' than 'why' or 'who', Valkyrie would have benefited from more scrutiny and complexity. Still, once the bomb goes off, the thrills come in spades. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
A World War II thriller without enough thrills. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The film improves once the assassination attempt goes awry, but the audience is never truly invested in the actions of these heroic men. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The history itself is the main appeal here. Read full review
50
Village VoiceRobert Wilonsky
Valkyrie feels like another installment in the never-ending franchise -- not just the action-movie one, but the Tom Cruise one. Like the operation itself, it's a good idea -- just not well-executed. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Bryan Singer’s solid direction and some flavorful supporting performances from the dependable likes of Bill Nighy, Eddie Izzard, and Tom Wilkinson keep Valkyrie within the realm of handsome mediocrity. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
It's slickly executed, handsomely acted for the most part and utterly easy to forget. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
If Mr. Cruise doesn't work in Valkyrie, it's partly because he's too modern, too American and way too Tom Cruise to make sense in the role, but also because what passes for movie realism keeps changing, sometimes faster than even a star can change his brand. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Valkyrie's political and military subjects may have sounded like sure-fire thriller material. Wilkinson alone proves that a suspense film thrives on intriguing characters struggling to survive. Nothing in Valkyrie is as compelling as watching tides of calculation crash across Wilkinson's face. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Neither a masterpiece nor an embarrassment, but a workmanlike picture that sits, inoffensively, in the middling space between. Read full review
50
NPRBob Mondello
As action movies go, Valkyrie is pretty short on action. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Directed by Bryan Singer in a break from his gayish superhero movies, it's a low-key procedural with a dollop of suspense--although perhaps not enough to make up for the foregone conclusion. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
What makes Valkyrie more depressing than exciting is that it forces you to ask, against your judgment, what, exactly, he achieved. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineCammila Albertson
The notorious action star keeps his bombastic persona remarkably reeled in, and the resulting film is earnest, somber, and extremely modest -- almost to a fault. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Sadly, it lacks the classic awfulness that might have lifted it into the pantheon of Truly Bad Movies. Instead, what we have here is a garden variety bad movie, of which there have been all too many lately. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
We all know how it ends, and that foreknowledge dooms Singer's hotly anticipated and much troubled account of the attempt on Adolf Hitler's life. Read full review
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