Blitz review – Steve McQueen’s rousing wartime adventure is surprisingly old-fashioned

Blitz review – Steve McQueen’s rousing wartime adventure is surprisingly old-fashioned

London film festivalThe director unexpectedly channels The Railway Children as Saoirse Ronan stars as the single mother whose son is evacuated, only to run away in a perilous bid to find her Steve McQueen finds the key of C major for this well made and unashamedly old-fashioned wartime adventure, heartfelt and rousing and – yes…