Sophie Scholl: The Last Days is a traditional and competently made film; Julia Jentsch's steely performance is brilliant.
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02/16/06
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:81
Rotten:12
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A film that begs the audience to reflect upon their own courage and strength of character in light of this young heroine's daring story.
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Reviews for Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
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.
05/25/06
Rothemund and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer have locked themselves into an episodic structure that offers virtually no nuance.
03/31/06
Top CriticSophie Scholl's is a story well worth telling, and this movie is one well worth checking out.
04/08/06
Top CriticThere's no moment of release, no instant of sudden redemption in this powerful, moving, and altogether devastating film.
05/27/06
While the film doesn't dig deep, or hit particularly hard, it neatly achieves its modest goals: presenting a real-life heroine in real-life terms. A film this fictionalized rarely feels this much like fact.
02/21/06
The film's claustrophobic intensity and emotional punch certainly deserve to be cheered.
10/25/05
[Sophie and Hans] embody the adolescent faith that any political action is better than none, and the movie couldn't treat them more glowingly if their actions had been effective.
05/03/06
Rothemund gives us his sophisticated filmmaking only in the finale, which is devastating in its briskness and fury.
03/10/06
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04/23/09
Electrifying ... As serenely played by Jentsch, Sophie is a heroine made radiant by the blinding truth of her moral convictions.
04/13/06
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days wants to avoid the sentiment that is inherent in the details of her tragic demise, but in doing so, it's leeched the emotional power out of her life and death.
02/24/06
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.
06/30/06
The sentence against her is carried out with startling promptness; because of the movie's title, we are not surprised, but we are jolted.
03/30/06
Top CriticAs Sophie, Julia Jentsch is so good, so coolly passionate and unaffectedly moving in her pursuit of justice, the performance transcends the workmanlike trappings of the film itself.
03/30/06
Top CriticThe realization that we are, in many instances, listening in on actual proceedings gives the film an immediacy that no dramatist could hope to match.
10/14/06
We haven't seen a comparable clash between a principled heroine and a determined, malevolent villain since Agent Starling matched wits with Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
03/10/06
A very tense study of the last days of Nazism, and a worthy homage to a true heroine...
07/10/07
O estilo quase documental assumido pelo cineasta intensifica o drama da situação e nos leva a apreciar ainda mais a coragem e a força dos ideais de uma jovem admirável (e Jentsch oferece uma atuação apaixonante).
03/29/06
Director and writer take pains to adapt Nazi interrogation records into an accurate and well crafted tale of civil courage and a selfless portrayal by Julia Jentsch.
11/26/05
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