A spare, propulsive, ever-intensifying combat thriller, Nolan's history lesson is both a rousing celebration of solidarity and the tensest beach-set film since Jaws.
Haunting, thrilling and emotional, Dunkirk is a prestige pic with guts and glory that demands multiple views. Especially in IMAX.
It’s a visceral piece of film-making.
Incomparably immersive, Dunkirk does admirable justice to its story – it's a film that never lets up, never surrenders.
Gorgeous, gruelling, strangely ungratifying.
It is made in hyper-realistic fashion and with such intensity that it leaves most other recent Second World War movies looking very insipid by comparison.
Dunkirk brings a lump to the throat and a tear to the eye. Highly recommended.
One of the many striking things about Dunkirk is how brilliantly Christopher Nolan redefines what epic cinema means. Contained rather than expansive, this is a film that uses scale to intensify the immediacy of the experience, not drag it out with endless money shots, meandering dialogue, rote flashbacks and needless character development.
Christopher Nolan is back to his best with this spectacular second world war action epic.
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