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Six Minutes to Midnight movie review: Eddie Izzard stars in second world war thriller set in a Nazi finishing school
3/5 starsAn old-fashioned British espionage thriller, Six Minutes to Midnight stars the comedian-actor Eddie Izzard in serious mode. The title is a nod to the doomsday clock, the symbolic timepiece that suggests how far humanity is from a man-made catastrophe. In this case, with the world on the brink of war in 1939, pretty close.Izzard plays Thomas Miller, a British intelligence officer who goes undercover as a teacher in a girls’ school on the south coast of England after the mysterious death…