and his performance is even more impressive when one considers that he is only eleven years old. The anxiety of war in “Blitz” is accentuated by the film’s excellent soundscape. Hans Zimmer ...

The barrage of bombs obviously presents a mortal danger to him, but there are other obstacles for a nine-year-old around every ... of British unity in the face of the Blitz, a reminder that ...

Wantonly staid and sentimental where his earlier work was austere and intuitive, “Blitz” is old-fashioned in its ... delicate stillness of Ronan’s face, “Blitz” burns with the ...

The director also discusses writing his first original song for a film and the relief on discovering that Saoirse Ronan could 'sing like a bird' “Blitz ... a 9-year-old boy — played by ...

On AppleTV+. There is an undeniably old-fashioned quality to Steve McQueen’s World War II drama “Blitz” on AppleTV+ — a rather unexpected one for the director of “12 Years A Slave” and ...

‘Blitz’ receives 6.5 out of 10 stars. ‘Blitz’s is the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to ...

Blitz feels like a gloriously old-fashioned epic shot through a modern lens. McQueen potently handles themes of race, class and gender: the general vibe of warm community spirit is punctured by ...

Taken on its own terms, “Blitz” is well done, but it could almost be a Barry Levinson Oscar-bait movie from 1992. The central character, George (Elliott Heffernan), is a 9-year-old boy with a ...

Hello, I’m Steve McQueen, director, writer of “Blitz.” We’re at a point in ... lives in a shabby London neighborhood with her 9-year-old son, George (the astounding newcomer Elliott ...