Set during the early days of World War II, Darkest Hour chronicles the tense and tumultuous days following Winston Churchill's appointment as prime minister of England. This is FRESH AIR.

“Darkest Hour” takes pains to show Winston Churchill in his skivvies, in bed, in the bath, on the toilet. It’s a necessary, and surely calculated, act of dramatic counterbalancing ...

Now Wright returns with a fully fledged Dunkirk film: “Darkest Hour” is already receiving awards chatter for Gary Oldman’s deliciously crafty portrayal of the film’s main subject ...

There’s no more 2017-appropriate inspirational theme than that. And yet that encounter on the carriage never happened. Does that mean Darkest Hour is spreading misinformation? Not exactly.

An Oscar-bound performance delivered on a silver platter, “Darkest Hour” makes up for a lot of the money gigs Gary Oldman has done in recent years, slithering through one action movie after ...

But there’s no particular reason to complain about World War II movies, at least if they’re as good as the riveting, albeit one-sided Darkest Hour. Darkest Hour tells the story of Winston ...

What on Earth Is Wrong with 60 Minutes? Summers Before Screens A Visit to Winterthur, the House Museum Par Excellence The new film Darkest Hour offers the diplomatic side to the recent action ...

As I previously speculated, Telluride will be hosting unofficial world premieres (they don’t label them that way, but that’s what they are) for Wright’s Darkest Hour with Gary Oldman as ...

Focus Features opens Darkest Hour in several locations Wednesday ahead of a wider roll-out later in December. Sony Pictures Classics’ Call Me By Your Name begins its theatrical run after a long ...