Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

As a result, McQueen curdles the expected optimism with a realistic look at how Black people and African and Indian ...

Ultimately, that there is a war on in “Blitz” may not be its defining feature. The London under siege in McQueen’s film is as ...

Steve McQueen’s latest film, set in 1940 during Germany’s bombardment of the British capital, draws extensively from contemporary photos, and much of it was shot outside London.

Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” is two different movies. One of them is an “Oliver Twist” tale of a biracial boy making his way back ...

So declares US war correspondent Quentin Reynolds in the British propaganda short London Can Take It, released in November ...

In a film that has powerful moments of wonderment, humor and joy, Saoirse Ronan plays a London factory worker trying to ...

The Blitz ended when the Germans turned their focus toward the Soviet Union. World War II ended in Europe with Nazi Germany’s ...

While those born years after the months-long 1940 Nazi bombing of London may have no clue about Hitler’s merciless ...

A title card for Steve McQueen’s harrowing and viscerally impactful historical war drama “Blitz” tells us that during the ...

And that’s maybe “Blitz” in a nutshell: not a perfect movie, but a truly moving one. Taking place in London in September 1940, it focuses primarily on George, a biracial child who lives with his ...

Blitz is a technically masterful and narratively impressive film that uses the formula of its genre to create a harrowingly ...