At times Blitz is a notch tropey and wastes a perfectly good Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness) in a pointless role, but the shortcomings are far fewer than the things McQueen gets right.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2025

The epic scope of war is balanced with intimate moments of personal triumph and despair, resulting in a film that resonates both emotionally and historically.

| Feb 4, 2025

Recreation of the tension, fear, and family separations during the London Blitz in World War II, similar to what is going on today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2024

George's incredible journey is extremely compelling, as is his mother's determination to find him. This movie is loaded with great performances, compelling narratives and characters. It is about evil, and those who oppose evil, even when all seems lost.

| Original Score: A | Dec 20, 2024

While I appreciated the bleak moments, Blitz is ultimately uplifting. The film is a tribute to a people, not necessarily unified culturally or politically, who shared a common desire to survive, save their children, and defeat totalitarianism.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 19, 2024

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.

| Original Score: B | Dec 12, 2024

It is honest, sometimes inspired, and empathetic most of the time -in its own, mildly revisionist way.

| Original Score: 70/100 | Dec 9, 2024

There’s something quietly subversive about McQueen smuggling this story of the dispossessed into the stuffy old World War II drama.

| Dec 9, 2024

Blitz is one of 2024’s best films.

| Dec 5, 2024

The edginess that’s marked Steve McQueen’s earlier work is absent in “Blitz,” a tale of the German bombing of London in 1940 that’s beautifully rendered but so cliché-ridden and nostalgia-suffused that the word hokey springs to mind.

| Original Score: C+ | Dec 4, 2024

Despite a neat visual aesthetic marked by glossy frames of war destruction, the film gets lost in the multiplicity of its ambitions, tangled in conventional triteness and sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 4, 2024

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.

| Dec 4, 2024

While Steve McQueen's story structure is episodic and formulaic, he - along with production designer Adam Stockhusen and cinematographer Yorick Le Saux, visually recreate not only London under attack but also the frenzied, integrated nightclub scene.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 3, 2024

The performances are good, the physical production impressive, the handling of individual scenes generally tight and effective. But there’s just so much going on that I practically succumbed to eye-rolling. More is not always better.

| Original Score: B | Dec 3, 2024

McQueen, whose unflinching "12 Years a Slave" won Best Picture in 2013, softens his touch a bit here. But his eye is as sharp as ever, and he identifies beauty even in the darkest of spaces...

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 3, 2024

A sentimental period drama that could have been made by any competent journeyman.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2024

McQueen comes up with an absorbing approach

| Dec 2, 2024

This tender yet provocative drama offers a new perspective on Holocaust horrors, enhanced by an expressive performance and evocative period re-creation.

| Dec 1, 2024

British writer-director Steve McQueen’s heartwrenching tale packs a serious narrative punch, thanks largely to a fabulous cast, engaging storytelling and a potent combination of immersive vision and sound.

| Nov 30, 2024

Blitz is at once a haunting recreation of that era, and a surprisingly conventional film about family and community during trying times.

| Nov 29, 2024