RIVETING ‘DUNKIRK’ IS NOLAN’S, AND YEAR’S, BEST

“Dunkirk“ is not a typical war movie.

There are no brothers in arms, no flashbacks to simpler times and pretty wives and girlfriends left behind, no old men in situation rooms pontificating about politics or helping with exposition. There’s no talk of Hitler, or Germans or battlefields or trauma or mothers. In fact, there’s hardly any talk at all, or, for that matter, even any characters in the traditional sense.

But don’t be mistaken: Christopher