SummaryIn the summer of 1939, influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.
Directed By:Andy Goddard
Written By:Eddie Izzard, Celyn Jones, Andy Goddard
Six Minutes to Midnight
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48
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5.3
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
48
32% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
63% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Mar 29, 2021
70
Six Minutes to Midnight is a tribute to those real-life girls who, as guests from a land that would soon become a vicious enemy, represent a strange little intersection of English and German history—the human element behind symbols clashing on a badge.
Mar 25, 2021
63
Director Andy Goddard’s film is far too aware of its subject’s peculiarity, and every frame knows full well that something is a bit off.
Apr 1, 2021
60
The film is like a cheeky seaside postcard with swastikas and cryptography on the reverse.
Mar 26, 2021
50
Admirers of old-fashioned British war drama should find this passably entertaining, and the dazzling green Welsh countryside and seafront locations that stand in for England's Southeast coast are certainly pleasing to the eye. But handsome production values can't disguise shaky storytelling that relies almost entirely on composer Marc Streitenfeld's agitated orchestral score to stoke suspense.
Mar 23, 2021
50
Andy Goddard’s film clumsily superimposes a frenzied, completely fictional spy adventure onto a fascinating fragment of pre-war history.
Mar 26, 2021
40
It would be nice to say that Judi Dench, inevitably the headmistress, elevates the project, but even she can’t get gas back into the plummeting Zeppelin (wrong war, I know).
Mar 31, 2021
38
The photography is elegant, but nothing else is. With action that is standard and not at all tense, the melodrama is much higher than the reward.
User score
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5.3
25% Positive
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2 Ratings
63% Mixed
5 Ratings
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13% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Jun 17, 2021
6
It’s an interesting piece of history, but I’m not sure if any of it is movie worthy. It’s not a bad movie overall, it just lacked something that while I was watching it I couldn’t be bothered to figure out exactly what it was missing. Maybe it was the pacing or the story in general. There was one or two very good twists, but I’m hard pressed to say that I really witnessed any stand out acting from anyone. Everyone plays their part well, but the whole thing is basically a Hollywood trope wrapped and a pre-war girls academy that says very safe and does everything to not offend by offering anything of real interest or intrigue. I can’t say that I can think of anyone I’d recommend this to.
Production Company:
- Ffilm Cymru Wales
- Mad As Birds
- Reliance Entertainment Productions 6
- West Madison Entertainment
Release Date:Mar 26, 2021
Duration:1 h 39 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:Britain 1939. Hitler's grip is tightening. No-one can be trusted.
Awards
BAFTA Awards, Wales
• 2 Nominations
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
