Synopsis
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
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Cast
- Jessica ChastainMaya
- Jason ClarkeDan
- Kyle ChandlerJoseph Bradley
- Jennifer EhleJessica
- Mark StrongGeorge
- Joel EdgertonPatrick - Squadron Team Leader
- Chris PrattJustin - DEVGRU
- Edgar RamírezLarry from Ground Branch
- Mark DuplassSteve
- Scott AdkinsJohn
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IndieWire
Bigelow delivers an acute realization of the mission's execution that's eerily in sync with the way it played in the popular imagination. Visually, the events unfold as a mashup of shadowy movements with flashes of green night vision. It's simultaneously predictable and tense. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
The film's power steadily and relentlessly builds over its long course, to a point that is terrifically imposing and unshakable. - 100
Time
The word docudrama doesn't hint at Boal's achievement. This is movie journalism that snaps and stings, that purifies a decade's clamor and clutter into narrative clarity, with a salutary kick. - 100
The Guardian
Telling a nearly three-hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually challenging films of the year. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Once in a long while, a fresh-from-the-headlines movie - like "All the President's Men" or "United 93" - fuses journalism, procedural high drama, and the oxygenated atmosphere of a thriller into a new version of history written with lightning. Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is that kind of movie. - 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
As a moral statement, Zero Dark Thirty is borderline fascistic. As a piece of cinema, it's phenomenally gripping - an unholy masterwork. - 90
Boxoffice Magazine
A masterwork from a master filmmaker. - 90
Variety
Far more ambitious than "The Hurt Locker," yet nowhere near so tripwire-tense, this procedure-driven, decade-spanning docudrama nevertheless rivets for most of its running time.