In Steve McQueen’s moving World War II drama “Blitz,” Saoirse Ronan puts an entire life into a song. Her character Rita, who works in a munitions factory, has just sent her 9-year-old son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside for safety, away from the bombs falling on London; now she’s singing on a radio broadcast from the factory, to help keep spirits up. She misses her first cue and starts again, singing a little flat and with her voice cracking. The lyrics “Turn up my collar / Whatever the weather / You’ll be with me / Wherever I go / We’ll be together” have broken her, just a bit, and she sings thinking of her boy, finding strength, pushing through the song, imagining better days. It’s a perfect, tiny encapsulation of this woman’s life and heart, and Ronan makes it all the more beautiful by not singing it perfectly. –  Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

“Simply put, Blitz is one of the year’s best films.” – Leonard Maltin