Sarah Boslaugh TheArtsStl Feb 27, 2024 8/10

Jentsch ... delivers a powerfully understated performance appropriate to her character’s conviction that truth is stronger than even the most horrenduously unjust regime.

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 24, 2020 3.5/4.0

A compelling and disturbing drama based upon the final six days in the life of a young woman who did the unthinkable.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Jul 10, 2007

A very tense study of the last days of Nazism, and a worthy homage to a true heroine...

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Kam Williams Upstage Magazine May 31, 2007 3.5/4

A claustrophobic bio-pic which telescopes tightly on the torture of the fearless activist till her demise after less than a week in the hands of Hitler's sadistic interrogators.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Mar 28, 2007 B+

The film has an immeasurable fascination that makes us look on as voyeurs and wonder how we might have reacted during such desperate times.

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Maria Garcia Film Journal International Mar 1, 2007

Although Sophie Scholl is noteworthy for its performances, it will undoubtedly fail to capture the popular imagination here.

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David Parkinson Empire Magazine Dec 30, 2006 4/5

Compelling in its depiction of quiet heroism, this testament to the power of passive resistance is made all the more authentic and poignant by the superbly controlled performance of Julia Jentsch.

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Stuart Klawans The Nation Nov 25, 2006

Jentsch keep[s] up a subtle, restrained performance while the movie Nazis around her are screaming themselves red in the face. She succeeds beyond all expectation.

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Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Oct 30, 2006 2/5

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Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor Oct 14, 2006 B

The realization that we are, in many instances, listening in on actual proceedings gives the film an immediacy that no dramatist could hope to match.

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Ken Eisner Georgia Straight Oct 7, 2006

Just when you think not one more story can shed light on the Second World War (at least without the blessing of Tom Hanks), along comes Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, a starkly stirring tale of resistance to all-encompassing evil.

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Jul 20, 2006

The subject matter apart, the film is a meticulously crafted drama, observing and recording the events, setting mood and creating a sense of time and place that further deepen our involvement.

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Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Jun 30, 2006 2.5/4

While Scholl's virtuous life makes her eminently worthy of her own biopic, it doesn't necessarily make her the most interesting subject for a movie.

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Jessica Winter Time Out Jun 24, 2006

The film holds few surprises, though it builds a remarkable level of suspense during the fait-accompli interrogation scenes, and is a well-intended commemoration of a courageous young woman.

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle May 27, 2006 4/5

There's no moment of release, no instant of sudden redemption in this powerful, moving, and altogether devastating film.

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Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star May 25, 2006 3/4

Though Scholl's inquisition and trial are harrowing, there's too little sense of what sort of person Scholl was. We can only grasp at air and guess what it was inside her that drove her to forsake her life in favor of a higher purpose.

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Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com May 17, 2006 B

The film has a serious, urgent tone, but not a preachy or strident one.

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Mary-Liz Shaw Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 12, 2006 3/4

The narrative is tight and compelling, claustrophobic in scope, with acting performances that chill in their understated anxiety and courage.

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Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle May 12, 2006 4/4

Through it all, Jentsch is a beacon of bravery and resolve in the darkness of a totalitarian machine. If any actor in an English-language film has given a better performance in the past year, I'd like to see it.

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Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan May 6, 2006

I found this Oscar-nominated film overlong and ultimately disappointing.

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