Dunkirk (2017)

Everyone told me to watch Dunkirk for years. Finally did and instantly understood why. Hans Zimmer's ticking score is immediately apparent. Now I'm recommending it just as loudly to everyone else.

I've seen Dunkirk multiple times now and it just keeps getting better. Hans Zimmer's ticking score is something rarely matched in cinema. If you haven't watched it yet, clear your evening.

I didn't expect Dunkirk to affect me so deeply. The way Christopher Nolan handles the collective over the individual is unlike anything I'd seen before. I came out of it looking at the world differently.

Dunkirk is not background viewing. Every scene requires you. Put your phone down, dim the lights. Christopher Nolan is doing too much to be half-watched. Give it the attention it deserves.

Whatever you think of the story, Dunkirk is one of the most visually extraordinary films ever shot. There are frames here that belong in a gallery. Worth seeing on the biggest screen possible.

Dunkirk deals with the collective over the individual in a way that's genuinely uncomfortable at times. But that discomfort is the point. Christopher Nolan never lets you look away, and the film is better for it.

I first watched Dunkirk as a teenager and thought it was fine. Rewatched at 30 and it hit completely differently. The the collective over the individual undercurrent makes total sense now in a way it didn't before.

Dunkirk is technically accomplished and I understand its place in film history. But it left me cold. The the collective over the individual element felt mechanical and I never connected emotionally. Maybe I'll try again someday.

Dunkirk has been praised so heavily that no film could live up to the hype completely. It's an excellent film — the immersive sound design is genuinely remarkable — but it's not the untouchable masterpiece some claim.

The music in Dunkirk is so deeply married to the images that you almost can't separate them. It stays in your head days later and when you hear it again the emotions return immediately.