Dunkirk: do Oscars beckon for Nolan's war epic?

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Harry Styles


The reviews are in - and most film critics have heaped praise on Christopher Nolan's World War II film Dunkirk.
It stars Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, and of course, One Direction star Harry Styles.
The film is set in 1940 and is about the famous rescue of 338,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk, France.
The film is released across the UK on Friday.
So is it the the best film of the year so far?
Here's what the experts think:

Peter Debruge - Variety

Though the subject matter is leagues (and decades) removed from the likes of Inception and The Dark Knight, 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!
Read the full review here.

Robbie Collin - The Telegraph

Like all great war films, it's every bit as transfixing up close: at the wheels of the civilian boats scudding across the Channel, inside the cockpits of the fighter planes tearing overhead, and most of all on the beach, with those uniformed boys barely out of their teens, wrestling with the strange notion of defeat with honour even as they fight for their lives.
Five stars
Read the full review here.

Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian

It is Nolan's best film so far. It also has Hans Zimmer's best musical score: an eerie, keening, groaning accompaniment to a nightmare, switching finally to quasi-Elgar variations for the deliverance itself. Zimmer creates a continuous pantonal lament, which imitates the dive bomber scream and queasy turning of the tides, and it works in counterpoint to the deafening artillery and machine-gun fire that pretty much took the fillings out of my teeth and sent them in a shrapnel fusillade all over the cinema auditorium.

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