Director Kathryn Bigelow not only excels at leaning into difficult subjects from the recent past, she thrives on it. With both The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, she knew she would be courting controversy by bringing to light aspects of the Iraqi War and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and she did it …
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‘Zero Dark Thirty:’ Bigelow’s Controversial Triumph Worth Seeing
January 14, 2013 Zero Dark Thirty, which brought in $24 million in its first two days of wide release, has been lauded worldwide and almost universally as an impressive piece of filmmaking, a movie that is anything but formulaic. It is always very different for those of us who live within the Washington area. Our …