107 minute running time so ten minutes too long … it wasn’t bad but I wasn’t super thrilled either … the music and sound effects were annoying for sure.

Dick Brody also wasn’t thrilled: “Nolan suppresses the mutilations and agonies of war to focus on its basic moral horror … a tribute to the virtue-inspiring power of war … ‘Dunkirk’ seems … like one of the self-censoring exhortations of wartime itself. “

David Edelstein also not a fan: “I find most of Nolan’s work to be pulp bloated by pomposity….“