The Director of 12 Years a Slave Takes On Another Historical Atrocity. This Time It's a Bit of a Mess.
Briefly

"Occupied City, released in 2023, was McQueen's first feature documentary, a four-hour-long thought experiment that contrasted various peaceful locations in present-day Amsterdam with the Nazi atrocities that occurred on the same sites during the Second World War."
"Blitz, the story of a boy and his mother separated by the evacuation of children from London during the blitzkrieg bombing campaign of 1940, may be the most conventional movie McQueen has yet made."
"Despite its upsetting subject and occasional violent imagery, the movie as a whole slots comfortably into the role of a period costume picture suitable for multigenerational viewing."
Read at Slate Magazine
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