The visuals, the structure, the use of sound and music, and the simple presence of a beating heart - all come together in a whole that is truly breathtaking.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 8, 2017

Dunkirk shows off Nolan's own techniques as a filmmaker to make for a film that is technically, if not completely narratively, lustrous.

| Nov 20, 2017

The strange problem posed by the movie is, in terms of what it sets out to do, completely of a piece but missing the surge of feeling that would make that thing worth doing.

| Sep 28, 2017

[Dunkirk] is absolutely riveting, but not quite the high-minded salute to the Greatest Generation the marketing may have you believe.

| Sep 11, 2017

Masterful visual storytelling on an epic scale.

| Aug 17, 2017

When Dunkirk ended, I realized it wasn't Dunkirk I wanted to watch: It was the sequel.

| Aug 9, 2017

A genuinely powerful and emotionally resonant glimpse into the fog of war, told viscerally and masterfully by a top-notch filmmaker in full command of his gifts. But Nolan indulges in a structural flourish that, for this viewer, simply doesn't play.

| Aug 6, 2017

Few films have stripped war down to its terrifying, thrilling essence as Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, and few films have turned war into such an overwhelming, almost physical experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 3, 2017

Nolan's sense of memory and of history is as flattened-out and untroubled as his sense of psychology and of character.

| Jul 31, 2017

It isn't a standard war movie, but it sure is some beautiful, difficult thing.

| Jul 28, 2017

It's not always easy to know what's going on in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk-which makes the film seem all the more convincing as an evocation of war.

| Jul 28, 2017

"Virtual reality without the headset", [Nolan] calls it, and it's no idle boast. Everything has been meticulously -- and effectively -- designed to dissolve the barrier between you and the screen.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 26, 2017

Occasional bursts of flames, imperiling many of the effectively nameless characters, come as a relief from the chromatic tedium.

| Jul 25, 2017

The movie works. Time and again, the action swells and dips, like a wave, then suddenly delivers a salty slap in the face.

| Jul 24, 2017

It is hard to imagine a better tribute to this victory of survival than Nolan's spare, stunning, extraordinarily ambitious film.

| Jul 24, 2017

A film that will doubtless become the definitive cinematic depiction of this remarkable chapter of history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2017

Technically awe-inspiring, narratively inventive and thematically complex, Dunkirk reinvigorates its genre with a war movie that is both harrowing and smart.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 22, 2017

It's an extraordinary undertaking, and Nolan delivers a spellbinding ride. Out of the depths or man-made horror, he's created a gripping tale of human resolve.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 22, 2017

Despite all the substandard characterization, what we do see sucks us in enough to keep us invested and, at times, riveted.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 22, 2017

This is a magnificent achievement accomplished with staggering buoyancy and grace, the victory of survival its own form of heroism worthy of celebration.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 21, 2017