Metacritic reviews

Fascinating in its depiction of presidential leadership in action.

An excellent movie about a real-life nail-biter, forcefully acted, true to its period and directed with clarity.

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.

The players don't particularly look like their historical models, but they make us feel their life-threatening pain and puzzlement.

A refreshing breakaway from both idolatry and cynicism.

I much prefer the whacked-out, Dr. Strangelove-ish brand of political-apocalypse film to all this straitlaced you-are-there dramaturgy, which seems a throwback to the early sixties not only in time but in spirit. But what Thirteen Days sets out to do it does admirably.

Greenwood gives a nuanced performance that may be the film's best work, but at times his surface dissimilarities to JFK are jarring.

A suspenseful breath of fresh air following on the heels of one of the dumbest Hollywood summers in recent memory.

Reasonably intelligent, well-crafted and dramatically understated.

This overdone project dissipates its energy in strange ways (sudden shifts to black-and-white, as though hailing the spirit of Oliver Stone and that other Costner JFK movie), and makes you wish its makers had shown the same restraint the government did during the crisis.