Dunkirk review roundup: See what critics have been saying about Christopher Nolan's latest
Christopher Nolan's tenth feature film Dunkirk will release in the theatres on July 21, but the reviews are already here. Almost all the reviews of Dunkirk yet are positive. Critics have praised the spellbinding visuals and practical effects of the film and also pointed out it is different from most war films.
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Published On: July 18, 2017 5:01 Pm
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Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk hits theatres on July 21.
Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan, is an epic war film based on a massive 1940 evacuation operation of Allied soldiers in Dunkirk, France. This is the first time Nolan has helmed an historical. Although Dunkirk's theatrical release is still a couple of days away, the reviews have already started to pour in. Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk already has 42 reviews and a stellar 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes. This simply means that all but one review out of 42 have been positive. Let's see what the top critics have to say about Nolan's latest undertaking.
Variety's Peter Debruge's thoroughly positive review has praised the immersive quality of the film, that makes one lost into the world of Dunkirk.
"He's (Nolan) found a way to harness that technique in service of a kind of heightened reality, one that feels more immersive and immediate than whatever concerns we check at the door when entering the cinema.
Slate's Dana Stevens is also in awe of the world of Dunkirk, but remarks how the film works with emotions differently because, although it is a war film, it is not a victory film. Dunkirk was actually a shameful evacuation, no matter how miraculous.
"Though this movie brims with scarily immersive you-are-there action it works on the emotions in a different way than most war movies.
Stephen Whitty of New York Daily News has commended Nolan's insistence on minimal use of computer generated effects and instead relying on practical effects.
"Let other directors play with toy soldiers and computer effects. This is big-time, old-school filmmaking. Dunkirk isn't overdone. It's simply done epically.
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter points out that even though Christopher Nolan is known for his blockbuster movies with stunning visuals, he also has an impressionist streak that "conveys the whole through isolated, brilliantly realized, often private moments more than via sheer spectacle harking back to French cinema of the 1920s.
"This is a war film like few others, one that may employ a large and expensive canvas but that conveys the whole through isolated, brilliantly realized, often private moments more than via sheer spectacle, although that is here, too.
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