Emotional and technical brilliance

Rating: 9/10 (28 July 2017)

Thank you, Nolan, for being the saviour of my blockbuster movie summer. Your vision and creativity is unique in productions of this scale.
When, a few years ago, I heard that the next Christopher Nolan pic would be one about WWII, I must admit feeling a bit disappointed. I wasn't quite sure there would still be something new to bring the genre. From the first few seconds of "Dunkirk," I gathered I'd been wrong to doubt. During the 107 minutes of running time, I was glued to screen. Nolan and his cast and crew delivers one of the tightest war thrillers ever to screened to this date. The airplane scenes alone are absolutely amazing.
With sound design, sound editing, film editing, practical and visual effects, cinematography and a score like this, it will take, in fairness, a helluva movie to prove more worthy of associated Academy Awards.