Heath Ledger’s ex-wife Michelle Williams is terrific in this Brit-thriller adap of Chris Cleave’s controversial novel. After her husband and son are killed in a football-stadium bomb blast, defiant working-class mum Williams finds herself torn between two men: the police officer (Matthew Macfayden) investigating the attack and the journalist (Ewan McGergor) she was sleeping with when her family was decimated… “London is a city built on the wreckage of itself, Osama,” says Williams out loud to the al-Qaeda godhead. “It’s had more comebacks than The Evil Dead.”

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