Darkest Hour

Name: Darkest Hour
Released: 2017-12-22
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ben Mendelsohn

PG-13
2h 5m
2017

85%

age 13+

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Academy Award winner Gary Oldman gives a “towering performance” (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright’s soaring drama DARKEST HOUR. As Hitler’s forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister. With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) skeptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen. Also starring Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James, DARKEST HOUR is a powerful, inspirational drama.

Director:

Joe Wright

Producer:

Writer:

Anthony McCarten

Cast:

Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ben Mendelsohn

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

85%

Critics Consensus: Darkest Hour is held together by Gary Oldman's electrifying performance, which brings Winston Churchill to life even when the movie's narrative falters.

Reviews

London Evening Standard

Matthew Norman

Oldman delivers the greatest-hit speeches not just with mastery of cadence but with enough raw pow...

Oldman is sheer joy in a role which transcends an otherwise uneven affair.

"Darkest Hour" is a straightforward, day-by-day depiction of world-changing events, told with meti...

And yet for all that telling about how it was, the film feels much more like happy fantasy than de...

December 15, 2017

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Gary Thompson

Churchill, by way of Darkest Hour, hands the actor some of the best speeches of his career, and Ol...

December 14, 2017

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Common Sense Media

age 13+

Common Sense Says

Mild but talky look at Churchill's early days in power.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Darkest Hour is set during an extremely stressful time in British history: when the Nazis were at their most powerful, rolling through Europe and threatening the United Kingdom's very existence. It focuses on Winston Churchill's (Gary Oldman) role in that military reality and the courage he found to stand by his core beliefs against all odds. Although it's set during wartime, no violence is shown beyond a bit of blood on injured soldiers (a bomb falls on soldiers, but we don't see it on-screen). In fact, rather than action and battle, the film offers lots of talk and political maneuvering, so younger viewers might have trouble sticking with it. There's also some drinking and quite a bit of smoking, which is accurate for the era.