The 33's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
Despite the predictability of storytelling, 'The 33' is an undeniably rousing picture.
The Hollywood Reporter
Director Patricia Riggen finds a rigorous and affecting visual language for 'The 33', but she and her international cast are hampered by a screenplay that too often gets in the way of a powerful story.
The Wrap
'The 33' feel less like an exploitative cash-in than most 'based on a true story' fictions. But it also makes it even more frustrating that ?The 33? is such pure Hollywood feel-good cheese, complete with broad clichés and cartoonish stock characters.
Variety
'The 33' aims for a comprehensive survey of efforts above ground and below, but winds up looking less like a sober docudrama than a ginned-up Irwin Allen disaster movie.
The Washington Post
The inspirational docudrama nicely evokes the havoc of the initial cave-in, but spends too much time above ground to convey the existential horror of the almost-buried men.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote