Blitz” is writer-director Steve McQueen’s wartime survival drama, consistently tense and persistently string-pulling. It relays a story of London in 1940 under attack, with a protagonist that never ...

He and his mother Rita, a munitions factory worker and sometime singer portrayed by Saoirse Ronan, live with George’s granddad (Paul Weller) in their east London Stepney flat. Rita is white; biracial ...