'Darkest Hour' review: For Gary Oldman, Churchill role is V for Victory
An Oscar-bound performance delivered on a silver platter, "Darkest Hour" makes up for a lot of the money gigs Gary Oldman has done in recent years, slithering through one action movie after another, portraying a Eurotrash or Slavic adversary wielding a slippery combination of dialects like switchblades.
An actor needs to eat, of course. But in "Darkest Hour," director Joe Wright's posh dramatization of a few key weeks in the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Oldman - barely recognizable, supremely vital - isn't just eating; he's feasting.
