Pressure
Anthony Maras' historical drama about the seventy-two hours before D-Day, as meteorologist James Stagg must persuade Dwight D. Eisenhower to delay the Normandy invasion amid conflicting weather forecasts.
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Pressure — Andrew Scott turns the D-Day forecast into a gripping war-room thriller
Pressure succeeds where its premise looked destined for dryness: it makes weather charts, atmospheric fronts and scientific conviction feel genuinely suspenseful. Anthony Maras never entirely transforms the source play into expansive war cinema, but Andrew Scott hardly needs him to. His James Stagg makes the weight of thousands of lives register behind every forecast. The film remains conventional and occasionally too neat in its conflicts, yet it finds real drama in a distinctly uncinematic form of courage: telling powerful men that the data says they are wrong.