Feb 12: Blitz

Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025
7 pm @ Galaxy Cinemas, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Director: Steve McQueen
UK/USA 2024
English; 120 min
Rated: PG

A defiant young boy named George (Elliott Heffernan) is sent to safety in the English countryside by his mother Rita (Soairse Ronan). George embarks on an epic adventure to return home to East London during the Second World War, only to find himself in immense peril amidst the Blitz while his distraught mother searches for him. This film has gathered praise for Ronan’s performance and Yorick Le Saux’s stunning cinematography.

Blitz often feels like a pitched battle between the conventions of big-canvas war recreation and an attempt to evoke the stranger, less obviously narrative-driven chaos that happens when the battlefield descends on a major urban center from the sky…   Jesse Hassenger, AV Club

Blitz knows what it’s doing and why, but its compromises may be more self-deceiving than subversive. Cloaking himself more heavily than ever in populist hand-me-downs, McQueen gets swallowed up by his own brilliant disguise..Adam Nayman, The Ringer