From the 1962 epic The Longest Day to the visceral scenes of Saving Private Ryan, arguably no other moment in history has been more memorialized in cinema than D-Day. This weekend, that tradition continues with WW2 thriller Pressure, which captures how meteorologists forecasted the weather to assess the feasibility of landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 5, 1944. (Our reviewer calls it “the Saving Private Ryan of meteorology.”) Starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon, Pressure is this weekend’s Critic’s Pick.

And Stratford Festival’s 2026 season has kicked off in earnest. Our theatre critic calls Guys and Dolls “a masterpiece of a gangster musical.” Catch up on all our Stratford coverage here.

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