“DARKEST HOUR” — 3 stars — Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Stephen Dillane; PG-13 (thematic material); in general release Fans of Winston Churchill should be feeling ...

Twenty minutes or so into Darkest Hour, something strange happens. It’s not the plot, since everything there is standard biopic fare with the main character fighting to overcome those who doubt him.

Winston Churchill is hot again. In the past year, he has been essential to the first season of The Crown on Netflix as well as the star of two feature films. While Churchill, released earlier this ...

Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman), prime minister of Britain, is up against a dilemma. Germany is on the march, with Britain in its sights. Churchill finds the very idea of surrendering to Hitler ...

Good news: Joe Wright is back. The director of Darkest Hour, which stars the evidently Oscar-bound Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in his early days as prime minister, exploded onto the film scene ...

The movie "Darkest Hour" stops before America entered World War II — else it wouldn't be called "Darkest Hour" — and President Franklin D. Roosevelt appears only as a voice on the phone. But the scene ...

(CNN) — Bringing Winston Churchill uncannily to life even without taking into account the jaw-dropping makeup, Gary Oldman should probably skip past Oscar talk and jump directly to knighthood for ...