Dunkirk isn't just a 'great' movie. It's

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Dunkirk isn't just a 'great' movie. It's not just 'slightly better than the best movie you've seen in the last few years'.
It's Chariots of Fire level amazing. I am confident it will go down as one of the greatest films of the last 50 years and be the new benchmark, and a reference point, for film greatness for perhaps the next 50 years.
There isn't a single scene that goes on for too long or feels like filler, there's no unnecessary dialogue or long cliched personal stories about 'ere's my sweethear' back 'ome, look here's a picture, queue awkward dialogue about how they're sure 'they'll be home again soon' only to be shot through the back a few minutes later, falling to the ground in slow-motion picture still in hand'.
Even with the scale of the situation, the boats, the machinery, everything still feels of a scale that's human, personal, tangible - you don't feel overwhelmed, it's done in a way that you can process it and care about each one of them.
It is as perfect a film as I've ever seen.