13 Minutes
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 30, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
15
Negative:
0
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60
EmpireIan NathanFeb 7, 2017
Despite moody flashbacks to the Nazi takeover, Hirschbiegel draws a blank. Elser remains an enigma, a great what-if whose German torturers cannot comprehend acted alone. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 7, 2017
A decently acted, heartfelt film. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDave CalhounFeb 7, 2017
It’s an important story, of course, but only mildly engaging as cinema. Read full review
60
CineVueBen NicholsonFeb 7, 2017
The story begins with the film's defining act and most accomplished sequence but, despite handsome execution, never hits those heights again in a plot where familiarity severely dampens the squib. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJun 30, 2017
The “what if?” aspects of this true-life drama are so tantalizing that the movie’s workmanlike execution is doubly dissatisfying. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJul 26, 2017
13 Minutes, which was released in Germany two years ago, is an earnest examination of personal conscience and the frequent necessity of the individual to monkey wrench the state. Or at least to try. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJul 6, 2017
In the end, 13 Minutes isn’t about the timing or logistics of one man’s plot to kill Hitler at all, but about what made that man tick. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 5, 2017
So this is fairly interesting history, not as interesting as we’d like it to be, but interesting all the same. Read full review
50
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJun 29, 2017
With a little more shading and originality, 13 Minutes might have pushed beyond its familiar Nazi tropes to shape something more immediate and infinitely more potent: an ominous portrait of radicalization. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJun 26, 2017
Aside from further vilifying the Nazis, the film's ideological endgame remains a bit too slippery. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 7, 2017
The movie is well acted and mostly absorbing, but it spells out everything so painstakingly that there's zero room for subtext. Read full review
42
The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaFeb 7, 2017
Shedding little light on the circumstances of Elser’s failed attempt and even less on the broader history that surrounds it, 13 Minutes presents a redundant historical “what if” that leaves itself open to charges of relativization. Read full review
40
The TelegraphPatrick SmithFeb 7, 2017
Somehow, this celebration of early resistance to the Nazis, with its overbearing sentimentalism and lacquered, Oscar-hungry sheen, manages to trace the familiar contours of countless other dramas set in the period. Subtle this film is not. Read full review
40
VarietyJay WeissbergFeb 7, 2017
What 13 Minutes fails to understand is that it’s a moral imperative to remember, but it’s an ethical minefield to remember in a simplified manner. Read full review
40
Total FilmTom DawsonFeb 7, 2017
This stiffly scripted film never quite stirs the emotions. Read full review
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