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).