Dunkirk

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Saw it earlier tonight.

Overall, I liked it. Good movie. Keeps you engaged and in suspense, which is what a good movie is supposed to do.

Some WW2 historians might be a little disturbed that the scale of the Dunkirk evacuation and the air battles that went on overhead were not quite captured. If historical accuracy in films is exceedingly important to you, this will not be your ball of wax.

But this didn't bother me. The director, Joseph Nolan, set out to make a personal, intimate war movie, and in that sense, he really succeeded. The connection with the main characters, who are British Army soldiers, a British civilian boat captain and his son, RAF pilots, and British officers in charge of the evacuation, is there. You genuinely care what happens to them, whether they live or die.