'Blitz' review: In harrowing war drama, bombs aren't only threat for boy on his own
A title card for Steve McQueen’s harrowing and viscerally impactful historical war drama “Blitz” tells us that during the German bombing campaign of London in World War II, some 1.25 million people were evacuated from the city, and more than half of them were children. When a 9-year-old boy in London bids goodbye to his mother and boards a train for the British countryside, we assume the movie will be about the evacuation — but when the lad jumps off that train and makes it his mission to find his way home, “Blitz” becomes something else. Читать дальше...