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Blitz (2024) — intense, emotional World War II film set during the London bombings

In WWII London, a defiant nine-year-old escapes his rural evacuation and ventures back to the bombed-out city, leaving his worried mother to search for him.

In the opening moments of Blitz, the fires are raging in London. The bombings during World War II have reached the capital of England. Firefighters act quickly to put out the flames of flats until one of them is knocked out by the nozzle of a hose; it twirls uncontrollably and takes five firemen to tame. Moments like these throughout the war epic/family drama encapsulate the horrors that British civilians endured during the war, an interesting departure from the wartime epics we are used to seeing.

Blitz follows Rita (Saoirse Ronan), a single mother whose husband was deported to Grenada, and her son George (Elliott Heffernan), a nine-year-old sent away from her to avoid the dangers of the city. When George jumps from the train and journeys back to his home to see his mother, he is subjected to…