The past year delivered enough WWII movies, that you could actually create a trilogy out of “Dunkirk,” “Darkest Hour,” and “Their Finest.” But if you’re eager for a different cinematic take on worldwide conflict, “Journey’s End” comes highly recommended (look no further than our Best Films Of 2018…We’ve Already Seen).

Starring Sam Claflin, Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Toby Jones, Tom Sturridge and Stephen Graham, and based on the Tony Award winning play and novel by R.C.

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While it sometimes feels that you can’t move from WWII movies (this summer’s megahit “Dunkirk” first and foremost among them recently), its predecessor is more neglected in cinema on the whole. A number of great films have been made about WWI (or The Great War, as it was known at the time), including Oscar-winner “All Quiet On The Western Front,” Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths Of Glory” and Peter Weir’s “Gallipoli,” but it’s been a while since the last really notable one, beyond it serving as a slightly queasy backdrop for “Wonder Woman.”

It’s a harder conflict to make work cinematically in a lot of ways .

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