Dunkirk - Kritiken

This is a movie of vision and integrity made on an epic scale, a series of propositions dramatized with machines, bodies, seawater and fire. It deserves to be seen and argued about.

This is a powerful, superbly crafted film with a story to tell...

Effectively one enormous, stunningly rendered and thunderously intense set-piece stretched to feature-length, 'Dunkirk' thrusts you into a pressure cooker and slams the lid on.

Christopher Nolan’s breathtaking historical opus attempts to give the viewer a taste of what war actually feels like.

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

Nolan, seamlessly weaving together several disparate stories at once, condenses history to its sheer essence...

...a work of heart-hammering intensity and grandeur that demands to be seen on the best and biggest screen within reach.

Filmen er en audiovisuel triumf for instruktøren – en kropslig, sensorisk og decideret fysisk udmattende totaloplevelse, der ikke ét sekund slipper sit tag i tilskueren i løbet af sin stramt komponerede spilletid...