Movie Review
War drama '1917' has got 10 Oscar nods, but does it live up to the hype?
Director Sam Mendes' unblinking gaze at war's futility makes for one hell of a movie
19 January 2020 - 00:00
Director Sam Mendes has emerged from the action-fuelled Bond franchise to produce 1917: a fitting, immersive, sometimes awesomely Baroque-while-simultaneously-surreal tribute to the stories his grandfather Alfred told him about his experiences in the trenches during the Great War...
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