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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 Nov 2017

Oldman treats Churchill’s words the way a Broadway virtuoso would: as the showstopper. And who can blame him? It works…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Nov 2017

Churchill’s resolve, like the bravery of the soldiers, airmen and ordinary Britons in “Dunkirk,” is offered not as a rebuke to the current…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 21 Nov 2017

Gary Oldman gives an impeccable performance as Winston Churchill in a gorgeously photographed, suspenseful World War II film that suffers from…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Nov 2017

I don’t think we’ll ever see anyone else do Churchill this well again unless the man himself comes back from the dead…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Nov 2017

From its grab-for-all-the-gusto Gary Oldman performance to its direction by Joe Wright, Darkest Hour is nothing if not an energetic, showy…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 21 Nov 2017

Oldman does a wizardly bit of becoming, making all these changes in voice, bearing, and proportion without putting on too many actorly airs;…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 21 Nov 2017

Gary Oldman should probably skip past Oscar talk and jump directly to knighthood for Darkest Hour, a screen portrait of Churchill against which…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Pajiba (523) on 21 Nov 2017

Darkest Hour is fine, but forgettable. You can feel the filmmaker's fear of failure in every bog-standard biopic scene…

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By Aurélie Dupire (19) for Cine Premiere (538) on 20 Nov 2017

a lukewarm academic final result. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Tony Macklin (521) for tonymacklin.net (414) on 20 Nov 2017

The cast often transcends the hokum of the screenplay…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Nov 2017

a handy political strategy companion piece to the more abstracted combat narrative of 'Dunkirk…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 20 Nov 2017

The year’s most shocking transformation arrives in the form of Gary Oldman’s Winston Churchill, a creation for the ages…

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By Travis Johnson (154) for FILMINK (Australia) (1,405) on 20 Nov 2017

a film predicated on dialogue and performance, and in those areas it delivers completely…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Nov 2017

Polished Oscar bait with an award-worthy performance by Gary Oldman…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 20 Nov 2017

Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Churchill is among the best to reach the screen…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 17 Nov 2017

Oldman has disappeared into roles before - from Dracula and Beethoven to Sid Vicious and Lee Harvey Oswald - but never so wholly and superbly…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 17 Nov 2017

Everyone seems to be a walking embodiment of an essence, not cartoons exactly, but something more totemic…

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By Dan Lybarger (786) for Film Threat (5,156) on 15 Nov 2017

Darkest Hour is a worthy companion to Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk because it reveals how difficult it was for the politicians to engineer the…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 10 Nov 2017

Darkest Hour runs the risk of falling into standard historical drama territory, but Wright and screenwriter Anthony McCarten work hard to avoid…

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By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for Wizard (28) on 10 Nov 2017

It's hard to say the star doesn't deserve an award, but it's easy to state that little else about the movie does…

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