Pressure: Fascinating, behind-the-scenes D-Day saga

Pressure (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for war violence, bloody images and brief profanityAvailable via: Peacock (free to subscribers) and other paid VOD optionsBy Derrick BangDirector Anthony Maras’ fact-based drama opens on a grim scene that evokes 1998’s Saving Private Ryan. It’s late April 1944. An ashen-faced Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) slowly walks along Slapton Sands beach in Devon, horrified by the multitude of dead and wounded soldiers, some floating in the waves lapping at the shore. It’s the ghastly wake of Exercise Tiger, a two-day D-Day rehearsal which, because of miscommunication, resulted in the deaths of at least 750 American servicemen, hundreds due to friendly fire. Meteorologist James Stagg (Andrew Scott, right) isn't surprised when his forecast forthe impending D-Day invasion — advising against mounting the offensive on thechosen day — angers Gen. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser), but he quietly refusesto change his mind.That…