Movies Steve McQueen’s New Movie About the London Blitz Is a Dud The 12 Years a Slave filmmaker takes on another historical atrocity, but the result is more head-scratching than explosive.

Steve McQueen, right, writer/director of "Blitz," poses with cast members Saoirse Ronan, left, and Elliott Heffernan at the Four Seasons Hotel, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Los Angeles.

Hello, I’m Steve McQueen, director, writer of “Blitz.” We’re at a point in the movie where Rita, George’s mother, has discovered that George is missing.

Saoirse Ronan plays a British Rosie the Riveter looking for her 9-year-old son in what could almost be a middlebrow Oscar-bait movie from 1992. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

In that film, McQueen juxtaposed past and present, death and life, and some of the same collisions are found in the 1940-set “Blitz,” which opens Friday in theaters and streams Nov. 22 on ...