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Kursk: The Last Mission

Kursk

2018

Thomas Vinterberg

Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Max von Sydow ...

6.2

3,305

Drama The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"Intermittently effective but mostly underwhelming (...) 'Kursk' occasionally lands an emotive blow but only in its more fictionalized stretches"	NEU
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"It's a competent, by-the-numbers action melodrama (...) The cross-borders casting is a distraction that robs the tale of believable specificity and stakes."	NEU
United States	Bilge Ebiri The New York Times	"It works best when it remains fixed on the individuals at the heart of this tragedy. The fine cast keeps us engaged, even if the film sometimes loses the narrative thread."	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"A surprisingly dull thriller (...) [It] totally whiffs the fundamentally crucial element of suspense that drives the movie"	NEG
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It’s a heartbreaking, troubling film (...) It ends on a note of melancholy but the burning anger also remains (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Stephen Whitty Screendaily	"A static story (...) Cramped interiors tend to constrain chances for great visuals (...) Schoenaerts and the rest of the actors (...) give quietly understated performances"	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"[It] looks phony right from the outset (...) There’s not much to do except wait for the helpless people onscreen to die."	NEG
	Carlota Moseguí Cineuropa	"One of 'Kursk's greatest achievements is the way it injects originality into a semi-fictionalised story"	POS

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