2017 · drama · biography · history
Darkest Hour
Directed by Joe Wright2h 5m2017
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
Our read: Darkest Hour (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · biography · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / biography, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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