Sophie Scholl: The Final Days Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

An ace performance by 26-year-old Julia Jentsch ("The Edukators," "Snowland"), as the quietly determined Munich student who was beheaded for distributing counter-propaganda leaflets in 1943, gives pic a focused dramatic power.Read the full review

Julia Jentsch strong and graceful, quiet knockout of a performance is the film's most potent weapon.Read the full review

Rock solid performances by up-and-coming German actress Julia Jentsch as Sophie and Alexander Held ("Downfall") as Mohr along with an excellent cast of supporting players insure that no one mistakes this for a lifeless docu-drama.Read the full review

This gripping true story, directed in a cool, semi-documentary style by the German filmmaker Marc Rothemund from a screenplay by Fred Breinersdorfer, challenges you to gauge your own courage and strength of character should you find yourself in similar circumstances.Read the full review

The effect of this scene is so powerful that I leaned forward like a jury member, wanting her to get away with it so I could find her innocent.Read the full review

The 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.Read the full review

Rothemund gives us his sophisticated filmmaking only in the finale, which is devastating in its briskness and fury.Read the full review

Sophie Scholl has a certain quiet dignity that wins its audience popularity honestly.Read the full review