Dunkirk

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Christopher Just something you have to experience at least once in your life Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/25 Full Review Tom A wall of sound creating a mounting sense of dread for the men who found themselves surprised and cutoff by a relentless enemy. An imperfect film but one that uses sound design and editing with precision to create a sense of ever rising anxiety and dread. In that most crucial sense, I think the film accomplishes its mission at creating an authentic set of feelings for the audience while still honoring the memory of the men who experienced this battle firsthand. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/28/24 Full Review Steven M. Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan’s second best film! Excellent movie! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/29/21 Full Review Katie D Very intense acting, captivating score, a bit loud and difficult to understand but I appreciated that it didn't feel too long. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/15/21 Full Review Nigel W I rather love Chris Nolan's films but was disappointed with this one. It is still a spectacle to behold so high marks with the visuals. Hans Zimmer's score delivers as per usual but I felt this was a bit pap for my taste. The actor's performances carry the film through and while it is an enjoyable watch it ultimately let me down in the end given the bar Mr. Nolan has previously set. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/18/25 Full Review Irate T Action-oriented war movie about heroes and cowards avoids realities I've always been interested in the first World War, much more so than the second. The evil that was so prevalent in World War II had its roots in The Great War, and I find the first more palatable for this reason. I've never been attracted to True Crime documentaries or procedural dramas. I'm also not a big non-fiction reader and am more of a novelist. When I was very young, I read 'All Quiet on the Western Front' and was deeply moved. I did love, love, love Saving Private Ryan. So, with slightly lower expectations than most, I decided to buy the book 'The Great War and Modern Memory'. While some passages were skippable for me, I was shocked at how much I learned. Hundreds of thousands of people died in battle after battle, all at once. I learned that irony and double-entendres were explored and reinvented during the war. There were several innovations to war-fighting that made their debut during the war, such as tanks, airplanes, machine guns, and trenches. How Christopher Nolan's movie barely explored any of these themes yet still was an adequately well-constructed and intriguing film is remarkable. Yet he did pay homage to each of the themes. The irony of the soldiers failed escape attempts after failed escape attempts, the dogfight plane sequences, and the references to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk, all worked to frame the realities of the war. However, like most engaging cinema, the film presented an action-oriented escapism and glorification of the violence during the war. The bombastic soundtrack would later work for Nolan's other war-oriented film, Oppenheimer. The action sequences were replicated from possibly The Dark Knight series. But working all together, cohesively, the film showed certain sides of the war that were awe-inspiring. The things it missed, like the horrors of the trenches, the terrible leadership of the British army, the frightening introduction of tank warfare, were in some ways made up by the allusions to how close the war was to the soldiers' homes, the rallying of the civilians, the perceivability of the Germans as the common "Enemy", and some other parts of the movie. I enjoyed the movie. I didn't love, love, love it. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/09/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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