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Churchill

2017 Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky

The untold story of D-Day.

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

Brian Cox Miranda Richardson John Slattery Julian Wadham Richard Durden Ella Purnell James Purefoy Danny Webb Jonathan Aris George Anton Steven Cree Peter Ormond Angela Costello Kevin Findlay Miro Teplitzky

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English

war thriller drama

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Review by Kai Perrignon ★½ 5

This movie ends with a title card informing the audience who won World War 2.
Review by Kmann ★★★ 2

you winston you lose some
Review by Samuel Reis ½ 1

2017's 'Churchill' joins the club of disastrous and bland Oscar-bait. Shot, written and directed like a BBC television special, full of the embarrassing over-acting, sombre-predictable music cues, and rudimentary direction. A truly torturous viewing experience.
Review by Matthew L. Brady ★★

I have to give Brian Cox all the credit for this performance, as he puts his heart & soul into this. Unfortunately I can't say the rest for the movie itself. Just like what I said about "Mr. Holmes", this could've been a TV movie, not a feature film. Nothing too exciting or interesting happens in this story about the paranoia The British Bulldog faced.

Oh and by the way, the good guys won the war. Just in cause you didn't know, according to the film.
Review by cora ✨ ★½

brexit as fuck
Review by Bobby Analog ★★

So, was Brian Cox playing Winston Churchill or Albert Finney in this movie?

Recent reviews

Review by Becca ★★★

I mean, it was fine but how many more movies about Churchill do we really need?
Review by Jarno Maertens ★★★½

Churcill's opening scene of hallucinating visions of blood washing up on English shores is a very captivating one ... and yes, I think the same can be said about the rest of this film. Some people who seem to hate 'old people bickering for a whole movie' won't enjoy this at all, but me being a history freak found this a very satisfying story.

It's a shame this version didn't get a lot of acclaim or popularity for it certainly deserves it so. And actually, Brian Cox looks a whole lot more like Churchill than Gary Oldman did in his fat-suit.

Britons should be a bit more proud of their beautiful country, just as Churchill was. Pay some more respect to the older generation.
Review by cinematiccritic ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Brian Cox gives us a convincing performance of the great leader capturing his mannerisms and child like outbursts.

Unlike the Gary Oldman film which was set earlier in the war at the time of the evacuation of the troops from The beaches Dunkirk this is set during the planning for DDay.

Brian Cox captures Winston's changes in mood especially well his periods of depression his Black Dog. He portrays the complexity of his character and periods of doubt and uncertainty. Interestingly the film covers his relationship with Eisenhower and Monty who often challenged and ignored Winston as they planned DDay a venture Churchill had serious doubts about concerning the loss of troops etc.

This film was interesting in that it…
Review by CartoonSA ★★½

Braced for disaster and was happily mistaken.
Review by Eclectic_Mess ★

TRASH, okay that might be a bit of exaggeration.

- There’s a bunch of bs subplots (not listening to his wife, and rando secretary woman not typing fast enough).

- Shit script writing, Winston sounds like he’s giving a speech the whole time and everyone else talks... normally.

- Exposition? Who’s she? Genuinely tho, who are these characters and why do I care.

- Shot, reverse shot, rinse and repeate.

- Nothing changed in the conflict for like 75% of the plot.

- Not only that but the entier conflict of the movie is just Winston being difficult, and no one listening to him cos he’s old and past his prime.

-‘We just beed to make him feel part of…
Review by Limevo ★★

Es sollte echt nicht schwer sein, einen passenden Schauspieler für Churchill zu finden.
Einfach einen ähnlich Aussehenden in einen Fettanzug stecken, Hut auf den Kopf, Zigarre im Mund, fertig.
Bei Brian Cox als Churchill klappt das leider überhaupt nicht.
Ich kenn mich leider nicht so viel mit der Biographie von Churchill aus, aber ich weiß, dass es sehr viel mehr und sehr viel spannendere Ereignisse aus seinem Leben zu verfilmen gäbe.
Warum man sich nur ein einziges davon raussucht und das dann nicht mal spannend gestaltet wie bei "Die dunkelste Stunde", sondern unerträglich in die länge zieht, das kann ich einfach nicht nachvollziehen.
Letzendlich gibt es immer mal wieder stellen im Film, die Hoffnung darauf gemacht haben, dass sich die Handlung mal zu einem emotionalen Höhepunkt entwickelt, der leider nie kam.
Review by TobiasL ★★

Churchill’s struggle with Operation Overlord. Inferior to the Darkest Hour in every way.
Review by Col Todd ★★½

Good performance by Cox but otherwise....
Review by Jon Broxton ★★★

Director Jonathan Teplitzky’s film Churchill is historical drama starring Brian Cox as the great British wartime leader. It’s not a full-on biopic per se, but is instead a more detailed look at a specific period in Churchill’s life: the hours leading up to the D-Day Normandy Landings in 1944, which effectively initiated the end of World War II. The film co-stars Miranda Richardson as Churchill’s wife Clementine, John Slattery as US President Eisenhower, and James Purefoy as King George VI, and has an original score by Scottish composer Lorne Balfe.

(For more: moviemusicuk.us/2017/12/11/best-scores-of-2017-united-kingdom-part-i/)