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Review: ‘Thirteen Lives’ Gets Lost in Sprawling Rescue Story

Twenty-seven years ago, Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13” saluted men with the right stuff — quiet courage and grace under pressure. This summer, he’s returned to that magic number for a similar rescue tale but traded the vastness of space for a film deep underground. “Thirteen Lives” is a dramatization of…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 3, 2022

In ‘Thirteen Lives,’ Ron Howard directs the Thai cave rescue

Ron Howard learned years ago on “Apollo 13” that knowing the outcome of a story is different from knowing the story itself

The Independent UK · Aug 3, 2022

Thirteen Lives review – thrilling dramatisation of the Thailand cave rescue

Ron Howard’s recreation of the 2018 rescue of a Thai junior football team is an impressively claustrophobic piece of cinema

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2022

Movie review: ‘Thirteen Lives’ an enthralling dramatization of effort to rescue youth soccer team from cave in Thailand

The effort to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand that captured the world’s attention in 2018 is rivetingly depicted in one of the best directorial efforts by prolific filmmaker Ron Howard.

Tribune News Service · Jul 27, 2022

Thirteen Lives review – Ron Howard’s Thai cave-rescue saga told with non-Hollywood heroics

Howard gives this stunning true story the Apollo 13 treatment but swerves Elon Musk’s grotesque ‘pedo’ comment

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2022

Going underground: inside Ron Howard’s explosive movie about the Thai cave rescue

Viggo Mortensen plays a heroic firefighter in new movie Thirteen Lives, based on the dramatic 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their coach in Thailand. But the film isn’t simply a white-saviour narrative, as its director explains

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2022

Melbourne international film festival 2022: 10 movies to see, from Crimes of the Future to new George Miller

Miff’s 70th edition offers 371 titles from all over the globe – including 18 world premieres

The Guardian - AU · Jul 12, 2022

With 'Thirteen Lives,' Ron Howard Revisits Thai Cave Rescue

The dramatic rescue of 12 youth football players and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018, a captivating operation already revisited in an award-winning documentary, is now getting the big-screen dramatic treatment from Ron Howard. "Thirteen Lives" hits theaters in North America on July 29, and the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 30, 2022

Stars of Thai cave rescue film say it was an 'honour' to be part of the project

In an interview discussing the film, Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell praised the "selfless" and "multifaceted" effort to rescue the boys

Wales Online · Jun 28, 2022

'Crimes of the Future' is David Cronenberg’s most transcendent movie yet

With his latest work, David Cronenberg has conjured a cinematic universe of aesthetics and ideas. But what does 'Crimes of the Future' mean?

Inverse · Jun 13, 2022