Zero Dark Thirty

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    Zero Dark Thirty
    2012

    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

    Recommendations

    • 100

      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.

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