Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan recreates the World War II evacuation from land, sea and air, interweaving events in a bravura virtual-eyewitness account.

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Christopher Nolan revisits the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops from a French beach during World War II.

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“Dunkirk” is a harrowing look at a barely averted British catastrophe.

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Filmmaker's recreation of key British battle is stunning, stirring – and a stone-cold masterpiece.

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Ambitious and harrowing, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk Is a masterpiece.

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Nolan fully embraces the power of visual storytelling in Dunkirk.

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Dunkirk is a tour de force of cinematic craft and technique, but one that is unambiguously in the service of a sober, sincere, profoundly moral story that closes the distance between yesterday’s fights and today’s.

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Nolan eschews war porn for a powerful and superbly crafted disaster movie – starring Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy and a decent Harry Styles – with a story to tell.

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Dunkirk isn’t comfortable to watch; it never relents or relaxes. At the same time, it’s impossible to look away from it.

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The director hits both heart and head (via the nervous system) as he captures one of the global conflict’s most harrowing chapters.

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Dunkirk is a monumental, unconventional, and frequently stunning war movie.

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Nolan is a master filmmaker. That was never a question. But what seemed, for a while at least, to be up in the air, was if he was able to rein in his technical obsessions and studio obligations to tell a story that connects with the human experience in a singular and profound way.

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Dunkirk is easily the best movie of the year so far.

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Christopher Nolan goes to war in the thrilling Dunkirk.

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Dunkirk is nothing if not a sustained effort on the part of the entire cast and crew to turn the audience’s knuckles permanently white.

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Dunkirk is also one of the best-scored films in recent memory, and Hans Zimmer’s music plays as important a role as any character. With shades of Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, the melodies are glorious, yet Zimmer also creates an instrumental ticking-clock soundtrack that’s a propulsive force in the action scenes.

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Lean and ambitious, unsentimental and bombastic, overwhelmingly guy-centric, Christopher Nolan's World War II epic "Dunkirk" showcases the best and worst of the director's tendencies.

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Nerve-jangling ‘Dunkirk’ is destined for Oscar glory.

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With a bare minimum of dialogue, and a brutal maximum of scenes depicting near-drowning situations in and around Dunkirk, France, in late May and early June 1940, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is a unique waterboarding of a film experience.

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It’s a vaguely flattened procession of talent and craft, an almost-there thing arguably more curious for that failure to soar.

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Christopher Nolan's biggest departure yet is successful in showing the horrors of war without relying on action-heavy expectancies.

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The metronomic precision of director Christopher Nolan's cinema is foregrounded in Dunkirk.

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