Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing review — a skilled, sensitive retelling of a night of horror

★★★★☆When Salman Abedi detonated a backpack bomb full of nuts and bolts in the foyer of the Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017, killing 22 people, the youngest an eight-year-old girl, two incongruous spheres of human experience met. Abedi, the son of Libyan immigrants who thought it was a godly thing to kill strangers with their lives ahead of them. And the fans themselves. These were people who had taken a young woman called Ariana Grande to their hearts after her ditsy supporting role stole the show on the Nickelodeon teen drama Victorious, through which she made her transition to stadium-filling singer.

Worlds Collide was a simple but effective title, because this collision informed every aspect of this story. “It’s chilling to think