11 Minutes(11 Minut)

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

You could call Mr. Skolimowski, who is 77, an old dog, and while the multistranded, chronologically intricate narrative conceit of 11 Minutes isn’t exactly a new trick, it’s one he pulls off with devilish panache and startling impact.

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

Jerzy Skolimowski's formal control over the material is so masterful that the textual particulars are revealed to be beside the point.

The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney

This posturing, airless exercise is wearing rather than exciting.

The Film Stage by Ed Frankl

The film’s pitfalls lie in the style-over-substance route that has befallen many films that have such an annoyingly gimmicky framing device at its center.

Variety by Guy Lodge

Given how much of 11 Minutes takes place in the glibly heightened realm of the Hollywood-molded actioner, its various fragments are rather short on intrigue, whether considered alone or in simmering context.

The Playlist by Jessica Kiang

For a movie that is all about accumulation, it adds up to very little, and for a story all about connectedness, 11 minutes, intermittently enjoyable though it may be, never connects.

CineVue by John Bleasdale

The dénouement when it comes doubles down on the madness and 11 Minutes is never boring, but neither is it quite as revolutionary as it thinks it is.

Screen International by Jonathan Romney

Ultimately, 11 Minutes is as much a virtuoso party piece as anything - but it shows a veteran director in youthful form, clearly having a ball.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

A low-bore DeLillo-ness plays at the movie's edges, but does it aggregate into a substantial something? Not really, but the traces of postmodern dread, however Haneke-lite it all may be (isn't everything Haneke-lite?), can tickle your short hairs if you're prone.

The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Almost paralyzingly dull until its last few minutes.