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Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk

A revised review

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Edward Hollett
Jul 26, 2023
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Reviewers have been so effusive in their praise for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk and so prone to use hyperbole and cliche that one suspects that something is very wrong with the film.  

The New York Times, for example, called it a "tour de force", "a brilliant new film",  and "a characteristically complex and condensed vision of a war in a movie that is i…

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