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Dunkirk
At the beginning of the Second World War more than three hundred British and allied soldiers are being miraculously rescued during the Dunkirk operation. The story starts when thousands of soldiers find themselves trapped on the beach. As they get back on the sea they face an impossible situation, but the enemy's strength never stops to grow.
17 December 1978, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
11 December 1983, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2 July 1974, Wausau, Wisconsin, USA
27 June 1940, Margate, Kent, England, UK
July 23, 2017
Dunkirk is a war movie that plays particularly well for people who don't typically like war movies.
July 21, 2017
Christopher Nolan's genius for treating movies like chess matches... is brilliantly employed in this account of the British (and French) attempt to retreat across the English Channel from the coastal city of Dunkirk in the early years of World War II.
July 21, 2017
Despite all the substandard characterization, what we do see sucks us in enough to keep us invested and, at times, riveted.
July 23, 2017
Heroism is celebrated, Spitfires fly, Churchill is reverently quoted and we're offered scenes of plucky British pathos that could have been written in the 1940s.
July 23, 2017
I appreciated and liked a lot of what Nolan accomplished, but it was too impersonal and distant to fully love.
July 24, 2017
A contemporary war movie that echoes classic combat films but eclipses them at the same time, Nolan's new epic puts Dunkirk on the cinematic map.
July 21, 2017
Technically awe-inspiring, narratively inventive and thematically complex, Dunkirk reinvigorates its genre with a war movie that is both harrowing and smart.
July 23, 2017
Ambitious, emotional, impressive, beautiful, terrifying and superbly cast, it's a fitting testimony to one of the most remarkable episodes in modern warfare.
July 21, 2017
It's an extraordinary undertaking, and Nolan delivers a spellbinding ride. Out of the depths or man-made horror, he's created a gripping tale of human resolve.
July 21, 2017
Dunkirk's plot is fairly uncomplicated. The thrill is in the deeply exhilarating pace at which the action unfolds.
July 23, 2017
It is hard to imagine a better tribute to this victory of survival than Nolan's spare, stunning, extraordinarily ambitious film.
July 24, 2017
It's a curious mix of old fashioned mawkishness, dewy eyed, if understated, patriotism, and contemporary art house narratological experimentation. It is, appropriately, very British (as we like to think of ourselves).