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'Six Minutes to Midnight': Film Review

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A curious footnote in pre-World War II British history fails to provide adequate fuel for a gripping espionage thriller in Six Minutes to Midnight, a disappointingly conventional passion project for genderfluid comic Eddie Izzard, inspired by childhood visits to the local museum at Bexhill-on-Sea.

The film takes its cue from the Augusta-Victoria College for Girls, where the teenage daughters of high-ranking German officials were sent to study in the 1930s, their uniforms sporting an insignia emblazoned with a Swastika right alongside the Union Jack.

But all the breathless sturm und drang is undone by the fictionalized script's clunky spycraft and clichéd plotting. After Lionsgate U.K.'s 2020 release plans were scuttled by lockdown, the film.

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