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2024, A Year in Films and TV, About Dry Grasses, Agnieszka Holland, Alexander Payne, American Fiction, Ann Sheridan, Argentina, Black Dog, Blitz, Carole Lombard, Chinatown, Desperately Seeking Susan, Evil Does Not Exist, Fancy Dance, Four Daughters, Gena Rowlands, Glynis Johns, Green Border, Jeffrey Wright, Kate Winslet, Lee Miller, Lily Gladstone, London, Maggie Smith, Only the River Flows, Percival Everett, Rodrigo Moreno, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Saoirse Ronan, Steve McQueen, The Delinquents, The Holdovers, The Peasants, The Settlers, The Universal Theory, Turkey, World War II
In a year when I was more often drawn to world cinema, there was at least one notable exception. Steve McQueen’s Blitz packs more action in two hours than some Hollywood blockbusters, and despite a more traditional style than expected from the auteur of Small Axe and Occupied City, it’s authentically a Londoner’s movie. Following a reluctant evacuee (Elliot Heffernan) and his conflicted mother (Saoirse Ronan), Blitz is hard-hitting and poignant, with a child’s view on war reminiscent of films like Hope and Glory, Au Revoir Les Enfants, and Empire of the Sun. Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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