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Dunkirk

2017

Christopher Nolan

Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hardy ...

7.0

56,589

War. Drama It focuses on the evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada, and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26- June 04, 1940, during Battle of France in World War II.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Dunkirk is an impressionist masterpiece (...) Using a risky, even radical narrative structure that splits the storytelling into three intercut chronologies of different duration (...) Nolan, who wrote the script himself, presents the brutal truth of the situation with lashing, pitiless directness."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"There’s exquisite beauty (...) '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. (...) Nolan’s feat is undeniable."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The result is so clearly “a Christopher Nolan film” — from its immersive, full-body suspense to the sophisticated way he manipulates time and space — that his fans will eagerly follow en masse to witness the achievement. And what an achievement it is!"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Nolan has crafted a film that’s sensational in every sense of the word; it aims for both the heart and the head, to be sure, but arrives there via the central nervous system."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Christopher Nolan's (...) profoundly harrowing war epic is the best film he's ever made."	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"This is visceral, big-budget filmmaking that can be called Art. It’s also, hands down, the best motion picture of the year so far."	POS
United States	Drew Taylor The Playlist	"There have been countless films this summer that have engaged in endless spectacle but 'Dunkirk' is the rare blockbuster that will leave a bruise."	POS
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	“'Dunkirk' soars, literally, metaphorically and cinematically."	POS
United States	Lindsey Bahr SFGATE	"I've never experienced anything quite like "Dunkirk's" intoxicating immediacy. The screen and images envelope you with urgency, dread and moments of breathtaking beauty and grace as you wait with the soldiers (...) "Dunkirk" is far and away the best film of the year, and Nolan's finest too."	POS
United States	Matt Singer Screen Crush	"Dunkirk would have been even better, though, if any of the characters seemed as fully realized as the aerial and naval warfare. Without that, it works best as pure sensory experience; incredible visuals, intense battles."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Nolan's apocalyptic war epic is his best film so far. (...) a terrifying, shattering spectacle (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nick De Semlyen Empire	"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 (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (over 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Heart-hammering and heroically British, this is Christopher Nolan at the peak of his powers."	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Christopher Nolan’s first film to be anchored in real events is a soaring war epic which impresses on every level."	POS

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