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Oct 9, 2024 · “Blitz,” befitting a film set in the European epicenter of World War II, has its share of destructive spectacle. But it is not, primarily, an action war film. It’s a human drama.
Oct 9, 2024 · A sprawling drama about the bombing of London by German planes in World War Two, it tries to show us afresh what it must have been like to endure such an ordeal – an ordeal which people are ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Steve McQueen's Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan, is a different kind of British war movie that's powerful and emotional in equal measure.
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Oct 9, 2024 · Steve McQueen’s (Occupied City) anthemic film is in fiery conversation with those untouchable legends of Britain’s early war years. It suggests that German bombs rained down on a London (and ...
Oct 11, 2024 · Blitz is neither a feel-good movie about wartime London nor unrelentingly bleak. The film treads a meandering line, traversing between Spielbergian adventure marred by violence, Dickensian child...
Oct 9, 2024 · A more mainstream offering than we might expect from Steve McQueen (Shame, 12 Years a Slave), Blitz pinpoints intimate tales of Londoners during the bombings of World War Two, occasionally...
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Oct 10, 2024 · Saoirse Ronan stands out from a surprisingly conventional World War II movie that can struggle to accommodate its director's singular vision.