‘Blitz’: McQueen’s ‘Odyssey’ Is an Inspired Take on World War II

The director tries an unusual approach that works at points, but overall the film’s timeline is off. Irrespective, it’s worth seeing.

Rita (Saoirse Ronan) takes her son George (Elliott Heffernan) to his train, in "Blitz." AppleTV+

PG-13 | 2h | Drama, War, History | 2024

Over the space of 16 years, the British-born Steve McQueen has written and directed just five features and all of them are well worth your time. I consider the first four to be excellent and wanted to feel the same way about his new World War II drama, “Blitz.” But I don’t. Despite being McQueen’s least impressive feature to date, “Blitz” is still better than 95 percent of all recently made movies.