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    'Darkest Hour': In A World At War, A War Of Words

    Gary Oldman (and a pair of latex jowls) star as Winston Churchill reckoning with the lonely decisions that imperil thousands of soldiers' lives.
    by Scott Tobias Nov 22, 2017 2 minutes
    Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill in <em>Darkest Hour</em>.

    Through an accident of timing, 2017 has produced complementary films about British perseverance and moxie at a dangerous inflection point in World War II, when 300,000 men were penned in by encroaching Nazi forces in France. Earlier this summer, Christopher Nolan's celebrated the multi-pronged effort to rescue these soldiers and bring them back across the English Channel, where they could regroup and continue the fight. And now Joe Wright's delves into

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