A House of Dynamite

4 Stars (out of 4)

Midway through her career, director Kathryn Bigelow made a leap from "B"-type genre movies — including the cult classics Near Dark and Point Break — to more adult films with more pertinent themes. These were The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, and the underrated Detroit, one an Oscar winner, one an Oscar nominee, and all three among the best films of their years. They were all written by Mark Boal, and if there was ever any question about whether Bigelow could succeed as a filmmaker without him, that question has been answered, definitively, with her masterful eleventh film, A House of Dynamite. It opens in theaters on October 10, 2025, and will begin streaming on Netflix October 24... More...

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