Darkest Hour ****
Oldman is pitch perfect. All-absorbing with enough verbal battles and psychological warfare going on just within the war cabinet to fruitfully warrant its run-time.
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Oldman is pitch perfect. All-absorbing with enough verbal battles and psychological warfare going on just within the war cabinet to fruitfully warrant its run-time.
Charm and experience go hand in hand, and director John Madden (The Debt) has coaxed this potent combination effortlessly out of a truly stellar British cast of Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie and Ronald Pickup. This film may have an older audience in mind, but its characters’ personal …