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  • 2001
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  • New Line Cinema
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  • 2001
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  • New Line Cinema
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Summary A thriller seen through an eye-popping new lens - that of the media's hunt for shocking imagery, no matter the cost. In 15 Minutes, as the cops chase the murderers, the media chases the cops, and the whole thing fuels an escalating firestorm. (New Line Cinema)

Directed By: John Herzfeld

Written By: John Herzfeld

  • 2001
  • R
  • New Line Cinema
  • 2 h
  • 2001
  • R
  • New Line Cinema
  • 2 h

15 Minutes

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
34
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
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Summary A thriller seen through an eye-popping new lens - that of the media's hunt for shocking imagery, no matter the cost. In 15 Minutes, as the cops chase the murderers, the media chases the cops, and the whole thing fuels an escalating firestorm. (New Line Cinema)

Directed By: John Herzfeld

Written By: John Herzfeld

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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28% Mixed
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47% Negative
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The picture is more impressive as it goes along, revealing a symmetry of construction underneath the rudiments of a thriller.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
70
It's a fast, entertaining ride.
By Andy Klein FULL REVIEW
50
Less the blistering satire it imagines itself than a blustering, bloody, blundering melodrama about bottom feeders nibbling each other.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
40
Too busy trying to make remarks to be much fun in the end. But it really only has one remark, which it reiterates about a thousand times, and it's not all that remarkable: Fame is overrated.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
30
15 Minutes settles into Richard Donner-style goulash.
By Michael Atkinson FULL REVIEW
20
John Herzfeld, the writer-director, attacks America's lust for voyeuristic sensationalism by aping the very tactics he decries.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
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If Detroit had produced an equivalent lemon, we might have been seeing the world's first one-wheeled, square-tired car with no cooling system, steering wheel or brakes.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
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Generally Favorable Based on 37 User Ratings
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32% Positive
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59% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Production Company New Line Cinema, Industry Entertainment, New Redemption Pictures, Tribeca Productions, Katira Media Production
Release Date Mar 9, 2001
Duration 2 h
Rating R
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