Thirteen Lives - Reviews

...this tale of hope, fear, service, and triumph is some of Ron Howard’s most engrossing work in quite some time.

...a solid and compelling watch that stands as a testament to people's resilient spirits.

Remarkable dramatisation of a true story.

...a breathtaking survival story.

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

...Howard succeeds in conveying the Herculean task of the compelling Tham Luang cave rescue.

...the second half is a riveting depiction of a daring, foolhardy, inspired rescue.

A gripping dramatisation of an incredible true story.

...reminds us that communal acts can be what literally save us.

Ron Howard's warm-hearted drama focuses on the courage of the British divers during the 2018 Thai cave rescue.

Alternately epic and intimate in scope, this is an old-fashioned entertainment about the real-life heroes who left no rock unturned against seemingly hopeless odds and pulled off one of the great rescue stories of the ages.

Howard's retelling is more grounded than an Avengers movie but no less sensational -- and far more impactful.