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Is This Finally Saoirse Ronan’s Year?
She has two shots at a 2025 Oscar with her passion project The Outrun and her first maternal role in Blitz. One is a better bet than the other.
In Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun, Ronan stars as an alcoholic piecing her life back together on the remote Orkney Islands, while in Steve McQueen’s Blitz, she has a supporting role as a mother missing her lost son in World War II London. As the rasping and whippet-thin Roy Cohn, Scott Tobias says, “Strong has a gift for making a vile man pitiable without turning the dial all the way to sympathetic.” Though the film has been harshly reviewed, the presence of this much-laureled performer adds a jolt of prestige that should offset the pans. As Peter Bradshaw enthuses, she “gives a sympathetic and controlled performance in a role that does not allow for much nuance.” With her co-star encumbered by child-labor laws, she should benefit from being the face of the Blitz campaign, a familiar figure who can sell McQueen’s post-Brexit provocations to even the most conservative audience.
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