Movie Reviews: Dunkirk, Pilgrimage, City of Ghosts

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk (12A) is an epic tale of the greatest mass rescue of World War II, when 400,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were left stranded and undefended on Dunkirk beach as the German army closed in for the kill.

Movie Reviews: Dunkirk, Pilgrimage, City of Ghosts

The story is composed of three distinct narrative strands: the events on Dunkirk beach, as soldiers are strafed and bombed by the Luftwaffe and Commander Bolton (Kenneth Branagh) struggles to get his men aboard Navy destroyers; the air battle, as RAF fighter pilot Harrier (Tom Hardy) dogfights with German Messerschmitts in the skies above; and the ‘little ships’ flotilla that sets sail from England for Dunkirk, here represented by Mr Dawson (Mark Rylance) and his teenage son Peter (Tom Glynn-Carney).

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