Dunkirk (2017)

Remember the early days of IMAX when the theaters were mostly in museums and pretty much exclusively showed educational spectacle and documentaries? This kinda reminds me of those days. More so than anything else, this film is a visceral experience. When the screen is large enough to fill your entire field of vision it's hard not to get sucked in. But it's full credit to Christopher Nolan that it works this well. This could easily have been something along the lines of those weird attempts at doing narrative film in Cinerama. And it doesn't reduce human tragedy to mere spectacle either. Dunkirk is a uniquely cinematic experience. It almost seems sacrilegious that this will eventually be screened on televisions and phones. There's really only one way to truly see this film.