Zero Dark Thirty

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the Academy Award-winning duo behind THE HURT LOCKER, reteam for this drama detailing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, which stars Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain as the intelligence expert who dedicated a decade of her life to tracking down the world's most wanted terrorist. In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA began interrogating suspected Al Qaeda agents across the globe in a bid to locate the elusive bin Laden. Upon arriving at a CIA black site and witnessing the brutal interrogation tactics firsthand, driven operative Maya (Chastain) aids her unpredictable colleague Dan (Jason Clarke) in gathering the intelligence that will help bring their target to justice. Over the course of the next decade, numerous false leads and dead ends make the search seem more futile than ever. Meanwhile, numerous suicide bombings across the Middle East and Europe hint that Al Qaeda won't go down without a fight. Then, just when it seems as if the trail of clues has finally dried up, an old piece of evidence leads Maya to a suspect who may work directly for the man charged with planning the worst act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Joel Edgerton, Edgar Ramirez, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, and James Gandolfini co-star.

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4.5 stars out of 5 -- "It's a rarity, a truly entertaining film that never condescends to its audience or cheapens history and truth." , (Box Office)

"ZERO DARK THIRTY makes you feel every step of Maya's journey, but it's her impressive achievement and that of the film itself that we're left contemplating..." -- Alison Willmore , (Movieline)

4 stars out of 4 -- "You're in for a hell of a ride with this high-voltage thriller that digs with shocking gravity into the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden." -- Peter Travers , (Rolling Stone)

"[A] meticulous and electrifying re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden..." -- Grade: A -- Owen Gleiberman , (Entertainment Weekly)

"[T]he director-writer team of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal deserves credit for taking on the subject in the first place, and dramatizing it with impressive skill." , (Wall Street Journal)

"Kathryn Bigelow proves herself once again to be a master of heightened realism and narrative drive in this retelling of the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden." -- Kenneth Turan , (Los Angeles Times)

"[B]rilliantly directed....A seamless weave of truth and drama, ZERO DARK THIRTY tracks the long, twisted road to Bin Ladens capture..." -- Manohla Dargis , (New York Times)

"[T]he Rorschach blot Bigelow and Boal have made out of this loaded story speaks well of their methods." -- Grade: A -- Scott Tobias , (A.V. Club)

3 stars out of 4 -- "Chastain shows again how versatile an actress she is....ZERO DARK THIRTY is a slam-bang action picture..." -- Roger Ebert , (Chicago Sun-Times)

4 stars out of 4 - "From the very first scenes of ZERO DARK THIRTY, director Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates why she is such a formidable filmmaker, as adept with human emotion as with visceral, pulse-quickening action." , (Washington Post)

ZERO DARK THIRTY is technically awe-inspiring....Mark Boal has written a tight, detailed and fast-paced script... -- Guy Westwell , (Sight and Sound)

4 stars out of 5 -- "Its masterstroke is to make the pursuit of bin Laden deeply, intensely personal -- a dance to the death choreographed by one driven individual." -- Neil Smith , (Total Film)

"Bigelow and Boal adopt a journalistic approach....ZERO DARK THIRTY moves like a police procedural: it is rigorous, pared-back and analytical." -- Michael Bonner , (Uncut)

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