Zero Dark Thirty

Name: Zero Dark Thirty
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Released: December 19, 2012
Duration: 157 min
Rating: 95
Cast: Chris Pratt, Édgar Ramírez, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Jessica Chastain

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: December 19, 2012 | R

Starring: Chris Pratt, Édgar Ramírez, Jason Clarke, Jennifer Ehle, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong

Summary: For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. [Columbia Pictures]

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Genre(s): Action, Drama, History, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 157 min

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Film.com Stephanie Zacharek

Feb 27, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty is precise, definitive filmmaking, yet Bigelow refuses to hand over easy answers. Some people call that evasion. I call it the ultimate despair. Read full review

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Steven Rea

Jan 3, 2013

A monumental achievement that documents a coordinated and complicated response to a monumental tragedy. Read full review

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Nov 27, 2012

Bigelow delivers an acute realization of the mission's execution that's eerily in sync with the way it played in the popular imagination. Visually, the events unfold as a mashup of shadowy movements with flashes of green night vision. It's simultaneously predictable and tense. Read full review

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Steve Persall

Jan 9, 2013

The last thing we see in Zero Dark Thirty is Maya's face and it is also ours, silently crying tears of reflection. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Dec 14, 2012

It's only at the very beginning and the very end that Zero Dark Thirty functions (brilliantly) as a ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. Much of the rest of the time, it's a workplace drama about a woman so good at her job that most of her colleagues think she's crazy. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Jan 10, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty, like the mission that inspired it, commands respect, admiration, even awe in places for the logistical nightmares that had to be overcome to get it done. But it's a hard movie to love. Read full review

Rex Reed

Dec 18, 2012

As a realistic political thriller about Americans in harm's way it is not half as suspenseful or entertaining as "Argo." We may never know the truth about how we found bin Laden, but I still believe what we do know makes a strong enough story on its own without Wonder Woman. Read full review

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