Darkest Hour is a film of
flummoxed old white men hollering at each other, a perfect foil to (and double - bill alongside) Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, both because the two take place at about the same time during the early years of World War II — as Hitler's world domination began to take shape and an invasion of the UK imminent — and because they are entirely different experiences: Dunkirk is all action, while Joe Wright's film is all words.