“Six Minutes To Midnight” (**1/2 out of four) was an uneven melodrama set in 1939 in which a member (Eddie Izzard) of the British secret service who is sent to teach at an Anglo-German private school (run by Judi Dench) to uncover information about its students who are said to be members of the Nazi High Command but soon finds that things get really ugly when he is uncovered and his life is in danger. Fascinating time period in history is reverently told but is somehow never as gripping or compelling as it needs to be and takes too long to get going. Izzard’s strong performance helps compensate to some degree but even Dench seems like she’s just going through the motions; this marks a reunion for the pair after “Victor & Abdul.”