<P> In The New Yorker in January 2018, Adam Gopnik wrote: "...in late May of 1940, when the Conservative grandee Lord Halifax challenged Churchill, insisting that it was still possible to negotiate a deal with Hitler, through the good offices of Mussolini, it was the steadfast anti-Nazism of Attlee and his Labour colleagues that saved the day--a vital truth badly underdramatized in the current Churchill - centric film, Darkest Hour". This criticism was echoed by Adrian Smith, emeritus professor of modern history at the University of Southampton, who wrote in the New Statesman that the film was "yet again overlooking Labour's key role at the most dangerous moment in this country's history...in May 1940 its leaders gave Churchill the unequivocal support he needed when refusing to surrender . Ignoring Attlee's vital role is just one more failing in a deeply flawed film". </P> <P> Referring to Charles Moore's comment that the film was "superb Brexit propaganda", Afua Hirsch wrote in The Guardian: "I would call the film propaganda, more generally--and a great example of the kind of myth we like to promote in modern Britain . Churchill has been re-branded as a tube - travelling, minority - adoring genius, in line with a general understanding of him as' the greatest Briton of all time' ." Hirsch also criticized the film for "perpetuating the idea that Winston Churchill stood alone, at the Darkest Hour, as Nazi fascism encroached, with Britain a small and vulnerable nation isolated in the north Atlantic . In reality the United Kingdom was at that moment an imperial power with the collective might of Indian, African, Canadian and Australian manpower, resources and wealth at its disposal ." </P> <P> The film gives the impression that both Clemmie and the King were able to listen to the' beaches' speech live from Parliament . This was impossible as radio broadcasts from Parliament did not start until the 1970s . Whilst Churchill did record the speech for posterity he did not make the recording until 1949 . Nor did he, unlike some other speeches, repeat the speech on the radio shortly after he made it in Parliament . </P> <P> Gary Oldman has said that there is talk of a sequel to Darkest Hour that could also include President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had been voiced by David Strathairn in Darkest Hour) and take place during the Yalta Conference in 1945 . </P>

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