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07/07/07
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:22
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
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
Top CriticThrough 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.
05/12/06
Top CriticA disturbing film about courage, idealism, youth and the grim mechanics of mankind gone mad.
04/14/06
Top CriticFrank and frightening.
04/14/06
Top CriticSophie Scholl's is a story well worth telling, and this movie is one well worth checking out.
04/08/06
Top CriticOffers the rousingly cathartic spectacle of a young woman who stood up and did what the country has been accused for 70 years of failing to do: to its face, she told Hitler's Third Reich to shove it.
04/07/06
Top CriticHighly personal and wrenching story.
04/07/06
Top Critic[Jentsch] creates a deeply human portrait of a courageous young woman at a moment when that kind of courage seemed in terribly short supply.
03/31/06
Top CriticRothemund and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer have locked themselves into an episodic structure that offers virtually no nuance.
03/31/06
Top CriticThe 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 CriticWith the exception of a melodramatic musical score, director Marc Rothemund never missteps, filming the remarkable true story with restraint and skill.
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 CriticRothemund gives us his sophisticated filmmaking only in the finale, which is devastating in its briskness and fury.
03/10/06
Top CriticThe film holds us rapt not through narrative suspense but through the eerie and demanding spectacle of profound moral courage, of a powerless good person in collision with absolute evil.
03/03/06
Top CriticThis seeming psychological incongruity made Sophie more human and more heroic to me, as well as more worthy of the deep respect that George Bernard Shaw and Danish filmmaker Carl Dreyer expressed for Saint Joan.
03/01/06
Top CriticJentsch is a mesmerizing presence in the role of this incredibly strong young woman, as is Mohr playing a man whose humanity and political beliefs are at odds.
02/24/06
Top CriticAs befits a film about a woman who took much of her strength from religious conviction, Jentsch's performance seems to be lit from within.
02/24/06
Top CriticSophie Scholl has a certain quiet dignity that wins its audience popularity honestly.
02/22/06
Top CriticSophie Scholl: The Final Days may sound like a history lesson, but don’t be fooled. It’s a horror film.
02/21/06
Top CriticSophie Scholl: The Final Days does a good job of catching the heady optimism of youth, and the fearless dedication to a lost cause that only the true believer can muster.
02/17/06
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