BLITZ FRIDAY, NOV. 22

It is clearly "the worst of times" in this stirring Dickensian nail-biter of a movie, set during WWII's early days, when the German Luftwaffe bombed London nightly for months.

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Courtesy of Oscar winner Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), we follow the perilous journey of biracial 9-year-old George (newcomer Elliott Heffernan), who jumps from a train full of evacuating kids to try to make his way back home