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Jun 30, 2017
88
13 Minutes is proof that a hero isn’t about having success against impossible odds; it’s about doing the right thing when everyone else on the planet is doing something else.
Aug 10, 2017
88
Freidel illuminates the inner struggle Elser goes through as, buttressed by his conscience and his Catholic faith, he finds within himself a strength of character and brave defiance that defines him as a hero in the truest sense of the word.
Jul 12, 2017
80
A superbly acted and strikingly evocative work, with careful attention to period detail and its many emotional beats.
Jun 29, 2017
78
13 Minutes is well-acted, with authentic settings and an involving structure, but it’s undercut somewhat by a rather flat love story.
Feb 7, 2017
75
13 Minutes is a taut, smart and straightforward bio-drama of this largely forgotten early figure in German resistance to the Hitler regime.
Jul 6, 2017
75
An interrogation session involving a psychotropic drug is just too weird for words and some will find the film sentimental and too naked in its Academy baiting. That said, 13 Minutes works like clockwork as an artful (if not terribly ambitious) take on a grotesque era.
Jul 26, 2017
75
Hirschbiegel and Friedel win credibility points for painting Elser as noble without painting him as a saint.
Aug 17, 2017
75
Friedel turns in a poignant performance as a man who feels that he has no choice but to act on his principles, regardless of the consequences.
Jun 29, 2017
70
This Oliver Hirschbiegel-directed German drama tells a fascinating but inevitably grim story, both more interesting and more downbeat than one might anticipate.