Pressure

Weather is something that affects us all, though it’s also something to which most of us pay little attention unless there are potential or actual consequences at stake; then they often take on paramount importance. The impact can be somewhat ameliorated with an accurate forecast, but that’s often problematic, even with today’s advanced technology. So it can be hard to fathom what it might have been like to predict the weather without it, as was the case in the 1940s, when meteorology was just beginning to come into its own as an accepted science. Such was the case in June 1944, when All...

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Rating: B-

PRESSURE turns the 72 hours before D-Day into a tense standoff over weather forecasts, and its ensemble makes the wait genuinely gripping — even when the film itself settles into repetition. Andrew Scott anchors it all with exceptional control, matched by an underrated Chris Messina and a scene-stealing Kerry Condon, while Brendan Fraser draws mixed reactions as Eisenhower. Handsomely shot and scored, it's a well-crafted history lesso...