Dunkirk: A Ghost Story

Why Nolan’s war movie is more haunting than the latest Blumhouse

I love Hallowe’en and ghost stories. As kid I would obsess over tales of haunted houses or werewolves but as I got older I realised none of that was real, sadly, and what real horrors there are in this world are far more human and sad than the gothic adventures I would dream up. This kind of cynicism has also been…