Ahead of the 2018 Academy Awards, Steve Rose makes a rousing case for the thrilling political drama in which Gary Oldman gives us the full ChurchillIn this movie year of seismic change, it is admittedly highly unlikely that the Academy will hand best picture to a film that begins in a roomful of posh, old white guys, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a case to be made for Darkest Hour.
And were that case not made (summons inner Churchill, orchestral music swells on the soundtrack), and made with steadfastness and resolve, then this inspirational motion picture would suffer a fate not unlike that of our desperate fighting forces stranded at Dunkirk had Operation Dynamo not been undertaken.
And where would we be then? (Shouts of “Hear, hear old chap!”, much waving of bills of parliament in the hands of besuited politicians, string section reaches crescendo).Darkest Hour
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