I call the movie a thriller, even though the outcome is known, because it plays like one: We may know that the world doesn't end, but the players in this drama don't, and it is easy to identify with them.Read Full Review »
75
USA Today: Mike Clark
Once this 2 1/4-hour slow-starter finally finds its rhythm, we're reminded of how gripping policy give-and-take around a long rectangular table can be.Read Full Review »
70
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Dealing with all these crises and decisions gives Thirteen Days a surprising amount of tension and watchability for a story whose outcome we already know.Read Full Review »
70
Time: Richard Schickel
The players don't particularly look like their historical models, but they make us feel their life-threatening pain and puzzlement.Read Full Review »
60
The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Kevin Costner is suitably flinty in 13 Days, a competent, by-the-numbers recreation of the events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.Read Full Review »
60
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Like President Kennedy, director Donaldson (who made "No Way Out," another pretty good Washington-seat-of-power thriller) has found a perfect balance of often-opposing forces: between recorded history and the demands of plain old entertainment.Read Full Review »
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