It’s early on in “Darkest Hour” when you say to yourself, “Oh, Gary Oldman is getting an Academy Award nomination for best actor for this.” Sure, Oldman is unrecognizable as the then-newly appointed ...

“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, considering its ...

There are transformations and then there is Gary Oldman’s Churchill in Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour. The actor endured five hours in the makeup chair daily to transform into the rotund politician who ...

This year’s best movie about a spirited band of resisters fighting an empire of evil isn’t the latest entry in the Star Wars franchise, but “The Darkest Hour,” an extraordinarily deft and moving ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X It’s early on in “Darkest Hour” when you say to yourself, “Oh, Gary Oldman is getting an Academy ...