
One of the most underrated Hollywood movies of the 21st century is Kathryn Bigelow's complex ode to big government, and the people who work within it, Zero Dark Thirty. The 2012 film had a Rube Goldberg-machine of bureaucratic moving parts to hunt down and kill Osama Bin Laden by the CIA, and treated the audience with respect, offered murky complexity towards the the methodologies and politics of USA foreign policy, and had the guts to hand off the main detective and political narrative to a team of military specialists, not present until well into the third act, when the story demanded it. If there is a spiritual sequel to that movie it is her latest feature, the Netflix paid for A House of Dynamite, which is...
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