DARKEST HOUR.

• Author: Slade, Stephanie
• Position: FILM - Movie review - Brief article

To go to war or not to? That is the quandary at the center of Darkest Hour, a film that depicts almost no violence at all and yet shines a searchlight on the stakes surrounding a decision about when and whether fighting among nations is justified.

Set in summer 1940, the movie follows a vigorous debate between newly appointed Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who believes Germany must be met with force of arms, and loyalists to his predecessor, Neville Chamberlain. With the enemy closing in and the United States (at the time) forswearing aid, the latter group concludes the Wehrmacht is too strong to...