Six Minutes to Midnight had the opportunity to be a small but tight espionage thriller but sadly squanders the potential by veering into cliché and having almost zero dramatic tension.

| Sep 17, 2023

I do love a good war-time thriller and I enjoyed Six Minutes to Midnight, even if the stakes in the end were somewhat lower than the premise sets up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2022

A small, plucky film that makes you nostalgic for old fashioned spy adventures, even if it doesnt quite reach the heights of those influences. Its an interesting platform for Izzard as a star, and a promising beginning for her future as a screenwriter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2022

The overall plot may be threadbare, the talent involved seem wasted but the story however is interesting enough to watch to the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2021

Six Minutes to Midnight is so caught up in being a spy film - and one that takes its cues from Alfred Hitchcock at that - that it serves up a paper-thin story that's on the verge of blowing over in the East Sussex breeze.

| May 3, 2021

Maybe there is a great story somewhere in the Nazi-girls-in-England bit of history, but Six Minutes to Midnight is not it.

| May 1, 2021

As watery as the direction from Andy Goddard is, Six Minutes to Midnight does have one major distinction: in no other film will you see Eddie Izzard run so much. It should have been called Run, Eddie, Run.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2021

The phoniness of the entire production is emphasised by the fact that it was filmed not in Sussex but in Wales.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 23, 2021

Director Andy Goddard (Downton Abbey) has made something determinedly old-fashioned out of all this while Izzard's attitude to the role could be summed up as: when in doubt, do nothing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2021

A solid, but unspectacular period thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2021

Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench star in a movie about a spy who infiltrates a boarding school for Nazi teenage girls. What could possibly go wrong? In the case of the woefully misguided Six Minutes to Midnight -- everything.

| Apr 16, 2021

It's unfair of me to put it this way, but had I viewed Six Minutes to Midnight on PBS, I'd probably have felt it was just fine.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2021

Music, acting and cinematography mix to form a story of wartime and bravery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2021

[Eddie Izzard' s]earnest acting is presentable if not stellar.

| Apr 6, 2021

For a movie that was inspired by a detail on an English school crest, it's ironic that the whole film should be undone by a lack of detail in its telling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2021

Unfortunately, it's a desperately clunky affair.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2021

It's been some while since I've seen a movie so fully squander a fascinating real-life subject.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2021

It melds together the intensity of a Hitchcockian thriller and the heart of 'Dead Poets Society' for a solid war-time movie.

| Original Score: B | Apr 1, 2021

It's not decisively anything else either, although it barrels along to pounding timpanis like a thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2021

Izzard, so dazzling as a live performer, is always fun to watch onscreen: As Miller, she has a vibrant, inquisitive energy.

| Mar 30, 2021