Steve McQueen combines a whopping budget with a cannily-assembled cast to excellent effect in a World War II epic so cacophonous, you half expect plaster to fall from the cinema ceiling. Saoirse Ronan and newcomer Elliott Heffernan imbue its homecoming story with heart as a resilient mum and her evacuee son respectively. But it’s London itself that it’s the star of the show, and McQueen shows in terrifyingly visceral detail the strains and perils of the Nazi bombing campaign against the English capital, as Tube stations suddenly flood and nightclubs are devastated by high explosives. A big-screen experience that’s worth upscaling your TV for when it moves to Apple TV.
