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    NEVER! NEVER!

    Jul 06, 2021 3 minutes
    BY MARK GRIMSLEY

    “NOW I DON’T KNOW if it happened in just this way,” a Native American shaman once said, “but I know this story is true.” This is the essence of Darkest Hour (2017), the Oscar-winning drama directed by Joe Wright. Pedants could talk for hours about its inaccuracies, but the film is true in a way they fail to grasp.

    depicts the first month of Winston Churchill’s tenure as prime minister. He is superbly portrayed by Gary Oldman, a

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