Unlike that film, which took a familiar potboiler premise and gave it a distinctly political, feminist perspective, Blitz tells a story that — on paper, at least — feels positively Spielbergian. It ...
Directed by the Oscar-winning Steve McQueen and starring Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, the World War II drama plays like a particularly ambitious episode of The Crown, but without the Queen.
Blitz drops us into London in 1940, where air raid sirens ... making for one of Blitz's most quietly affecting sections. Given how World War II films predominantly center white perspectives ...