Zero Dark Thirty
For a decade after the September 2001 attacks, Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden.
26 August 1976, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
15 October 1981, London, England, UK
18 November 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
June1982, Kent, England, UK
July 14, 2016
Chastain dominates the screen, her character evolving from nervous but willing to domineering and demanding.May 10, 2016
There's hardly a dull moment in Zero Dark Thirty. Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar hopeful... is a skin-tight, effective procedural with a maddening focus on the CIA's decade-long manhunt of the elusive bin Laden.January 15, 2013
This is an instant classic.April 13, 2016
As polished as a gun barrel, and about as complicated.January 11, 2013
No doubt Zero Dark Thirty serves a function by airing America's dirty laundry about detainee and torture programs, but in its wake, there's a crying need for a compassionate Coming Home to counter its brutal Deer Hunter.February 05, 2013
What's striking is the absence of triumphalism -- Bigelow doesn't shy away from showing the victims shot down in cold blood in the compound -- and we come away with the overwhelming sense that this has been a grim, dark episode in our history.January 11, 2013
While "Zero Dark Thirty" may offer political and moral arguing points aplenty, as well as vicarious thrills,as a film it's simply too much of a passable thing.January 11, 2013
Chastain makes Maya as vivid as a bloodshot eye. Her porcelain skin, delicate features and feminine attire belie the steel within.June 21, 2016
A great American film: complicated, nuanced, searching, piercing, difficult - and yet thrilling and satisfying all the same.April 06, 2016
As grueling as parts of it are, though, you may not love it. You may not even like it. But, regardless of your politics, you're all but guaranteed to appreciate it.June 13, 2013
If you like World War II films, you'll enjoy this.April 17, 2016
Minimalism is a valid creative choice, but in this case, it renders an extraordinary story very ordinary. And the real-life heroes, flaws and all, were anything but.