Running Time: 157 minutes
Review by Tom Clift
After both scoring Oscars for their heart-pounding portrayal of an Iraq War bomb disposal unit in 2009’s The Hurt Locker, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal turn their lens on another, more shadowy side of the American War on Terror with Zero Dark Thirty, a film that chronicles the decade-long search for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. Like the manhunt it painstakingly recreates, the film is a dense and complicated affair, full of ethical uncertainty and frustrating narrative dead-ends. Yet for the attentive viewer, Bigelow’s latest proves a rewarding piece of filmmaking, one that, in its best moments at least, is as gripping and as troubling as anything the director’s ever made.
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