Valkyrie could be a stronger thriller but where it succeeds is in spreading awareness of the German Resistance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

It lacks the anticipated edge-of-your-seat experience, but it conveys the events with a cool ease and an admirable eye for detail.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2023

Though it may not not the best WWII movie to premiere this year, it still supplies the thrills it promises.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Valkyrie isn't a disaster, but I'd rather have seen a different telling of the story.

| Nov 15, 2020

Cruise is the film's biggest flaw.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

If you can leave you incredulity at the door, however, Valkyrie isn't all bad. The large ensemble cast are excellent, even if they are speaking in a variety of accents.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2019

Based on a true story. Unlike Inglourious Basterds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2018

Valkyrie is another entry into Cruise's canon of quality films and performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2014

Valkyrie isn't a classic war movie by any means, but is it the total laughing stock many feared? Nein.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2012

Valkyrie, as field-commanded by director Bryan Singer, succeeds on its own terms as a handsome hybrid of conspiracy thriller and history lesson, of Mission: Impossible and The Day of the Jackal.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

If there's one thing Cruise knows how to portray, it's robotic single-mindedness.

| Aug 16, 2011

Counterbalancing the energy vacuum that is Cruise is the good news that this is also a Bryan Singer movie.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

As both a World War II film and a conspiracy story Valkyrie largely succeeds. No one part may stand above its fellows (not to mention other films) but what it adds up to is more than worthwhile and you may find yourself pleasantly surprised.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 10, 2011

Cruise, Singer, lose the credibility battle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2010

El Caso de Valquiria como cinta es muy interesante pues a pesar de que todos sabemos el desenlace, la realización logra mantenernos pegados a la butaca pidiendo de forma imposible que el complot funcione y dejándonos al final con un montón de "Y si%u2026"

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2010

the action is traded for suspense in the movie, which is when things really click

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2010

Singer can only touch on the surface of each development. It would help if we could see the failure reflected in von Stauffenberg's one good eye, but Cruise, alas, can offer little help. He's just Tom Cruise in an eyepatch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 24, 2009

Maintaining tension in the face of a foregone conclusion is no mean trick, but Mr. Singer and company do as well as anyone could hope.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

It's never a pretty sight when a limited performer tries to "stretch" by way of cosmetics

| Aug 26, 2009

[Cruise] looks about as German as Jackie Chan would in a lederhosen.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 1, 2009