Christopher Nolan puts audiences in the middle of WWII in the intimate and epic `Dunkirk`
(LA Times Anaheim Ducks)

Very much like the pivotal historical event it celebrates, `Dunkirk` confounds expectations. Both intimate and epic, as emotional as it is tension-filled, it is being ballyhooed as a departure for bravura filmmaker Christopher Nolan, but in truth the reason it succeeds so masterfully is that it...