Nearly a decade after the Twin Towers were destroyed by a terrorist plot, Kathryn Bigelow’s
Zero Dark Thirty attempts to directly address how the country as a whole responded to that horrific event. That kind of ambition should be applauded, even if the movie as a whole never quite clears the very high bar it sets for itself.
At the center of this procedural about the hunt for Osama bin Laden is Maya (Jessica Chastain), an intelligence expert whom another character describes early on as “a killer.” The picture opens with her at a secret enhanced-interrogation center, where she watches as Dan (Jason Clarke), a master at exerting physical and psychologica...
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2012
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