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Positive Reviews
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Negative reviews
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2.0
Its impossible for a film like Zero Dark Thirty to be entirely apoliticaland presenting it as a piece of just the facts reportage makes it, if anythin ..
Av Club
4.5
And with the script devoting so little time to fleshing out Mayas backstory, it doesnt function particularly well as a character study, either.
Den Of Geek
2.0
This is a bin Laden thriller that Dick Cheney and Barack Obama could love.At the same time, the film spins its fearless and potentially controversial ..
EW
3.8
Its performances are razor sharp and detailed, the acting restrained, the timing perfect.
Rogerebert
2.0
With bin Laden still on the loose, it would remain thematically rooted in the darkness of the movies opening moments.Given the chance to give her stor ..
Indie Wire
4.0
But Boal has clearly constructed this as a more journalistic alternative to a generic gung ho approach.
Variety
4.5
Zero Dark Thirty is Bigelows greatest achievement and one of the most important pieces of cinema of the last decade.
We Got This Covered
4.8
This is as smart and well crafted a drama as I have seen all year, a stark and harrowing peek behind the modern intelligence curtain that is both exhi ..
We Got This Covered
4.5
Its a measure of the seriousness of her intentions that this opening gambit doesnt feel instantly exploitative.
Austin Chronicle
5.0
We see the desperate context they work in the tick, tick, tick wait for more bombs to go off around the world.Years pass.
Time Out
5.0
You know the outcome, but are you ready for the banal bloodstain, the suddenness, the disquieting feeling of an itch that cant be scratched
Time Out
3.8
Its an almost unnecessarily clever detail, but it reveals something of the remarkable degree of thought director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark ..
5.0
From the very first scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates why she is such a formidable filmmaker, as adept with human emot ..
4.5
This isnt to say that the film fails to flesh out its main characters its just that Zero Dark Thirty refuses to add artificial emotional stakes to an ..
Screen Daily
4.5
Subsequent viewings reward viewers by revealing more of Bigelows masterful subtext, and the film works extremely well as a gripping procedural thrille ..
Collider
4.0
Whether you call it well informed speculative history, docudrama re creation or very stripped down suspense filmmaking, Zero Dark Thirty matches form ..
The Hollywood Reporter
4.0
Some critics have wagged that Zero Dark Thirty is pro torture, while other government officials have complained that the film oversells the efficacy o ..
4.5
But its tight and comprehensive, and just conventional enough to be recognized by any moviegoer as an American Thriller.And a really good one, at that ..
Paste Magazine
4.8
But instead, its one of the best films of the year, a thrilling procedural and study of the labors of obsession.
IGN
5.0
Here she has delivered an epic that is thoughtful but isnt sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought; it is robust, physically exact it hums with the ..
E Film Critic
4.0
Boals script connects these two points in history like a two mile long touch paper, and the film streaks along it towards its inevitable, incendiary c ..
Telegraph
4.0
This torture is quite painful to watch as it is being administered, but on the whole its not shown to be particularly effective as a means of obtainin ..
5.0
Its measured, seething with suppressed emotion, unafraid of slow stretches and false trails, snapping shut like a mantrap when blood is shed.
4.0
Their resolve is tested, though we dont hear them question their tactics.
Ny Daily News
5.0
This is a powerhouse performance that reminds us why Chastain is one of the most compelling actresses in recent years.
JoBlo
4.5
The myth of heroism is a bright thing; ZDT manages to convey the very real darkness, personal toll and utter confusion that is often the reality of th ..
Screen Rant
3.8
Handheld camera predominates and the chapter headings and time line suggest a documentary realism.
The Globe And Mail
5.0
Jessica Chastain with Christopher Stanley (left), Alex Corbet Burcher as her fellow operatives.She is obsessed with getting bin Laden.
Philly
1.0
It is so indifferent to the consequences of its characters actions that it doesnt confront you with anything.Do you flinch at the torture scenes
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
A masterful piece of action filmmaking that succeeds in generating enormous tension by dramatizing a recent historical event in spite of the fact that ..
One Guys Opinion
4.0
If The Hurt Locker embedded us inside the blast radius, Zero Dark Thirty offers a different kind of sensory immersion.
Village Voice
4.4
We feel exactly what those involved must have felt at the end. Not elation. Not the thrill of victory. Just relief.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.0
This is a good story, though not as exciting as a Bond spy chase.
Sover
4.4
A compelling contemporary thriller with the added benefit of also being an engrossing character study.
ReelViews
3.0
The effort collected awards and Oscar gold, while bringing Bigelow into the big time after years helming cult hits and ambitious misfires.
Blu Ray
4.0
That debate will continue, but at the very least Bigelow has widened her reach past the white knuckle thrills of The Hurt Locker and into the darkest ..
Chicago Reader
5.0
For now, here is the defining film about whatever the so called War on Terror is.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
The film builds steadily, but never tediously, to the long awaited mission to Abbottabad and the compound housing Osama bin Laden.
2.0
Its like All the Presidents Men with torture and explosions, but no mention of presidents...
2.5
The Films of Kathryn Bigelow The Loveless Near Dark Blue Steel Point Break (August 3/09) Though its overlong by about half an hour, Point Break boasts ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
This is another problem for the film when it comes to winning the Academy Award for best picture.
Lariat
2.0
Nor is the movie here to make any bold political or moral pronouncements.
Eric Ds Nider
4.8
Ultimately, Zero Dark Thirty is a film epic and efficient enough to be compared to the great films of Coppola, Scorsese and Kubrick.
News Review
2.0
But it simply didnt emotionally engage me like I thought it should and easily could have.
Screen It
5.0
The knockout punch of the movie season is being delivered by Zero Dark Thirty.
Rolling Stone
4.5
This time out, we look at Kathryn Bigelows amazing follow up to her previous Best Picture Winner, The Hurt Locker
Pop Matters
3.5
Its not enough to describe Dead Man as simply an anti western; its an iconoclastic deconstruction of late 19th Century American values and mores, many ..
Pop Matters
3.0
Its always a challenge to tell a story where the audience knows the ending.
The Wrap
4.4
Instead, it unfolds with the cool detachment of a documentary even in its most tense and gripping scenes.
News Day
5.0
Its one of the great recent works about the investigative process, a streamlined, riveting portrait of a nuts and bolts inquiry over the course of a d ..
News Day
2.0
This is a nuts and bolts cinematic dossier on how the job was done.
Cs Monitor
5.0
Any smart woman whos ever coped with a condescending male boss will relate to Kathryn Bigelows riveting thriller Zero Dark Thirty, even if it takes pl ..
New York Post
4.0
This is not a bad thing, as much as it might frustrate some audiences.
Film Journal International ..
5.0
Zero Dark Thirty is a great movie, an astonishing achievement on nearly every level.
Az Central
3.0
I guess Id call it efficientwhich is how Ive felt about all of Kathryn Bigelows movies.I would not call it inspired, groundbreaking, brilliant, innova ..
Mountain X
4.5
The filmmakers could hardly avoid raising those questions, but they pointedly leave them for the audience to answer.
Npr
5.0
A timely and important reminder of the agonizing human price of zealotry.
Star Tribune
4.5
Too soon for us to look at this film as pure art, pure entertainment, as separate from its inevitable sociopolitical implications.
1.5
Too soon Too soon for a kickass political action movie about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden
5.0
Zero Dark Thirty (out of 4) Jessica Chastain plays Maya, the unlikely hero whose persistence led to the discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden.( Jon ..
Toronto Star
3.0
Neither Zinnemann nor Attenborough knew much about the musical movie genre.
Emanuellevy
5.0
This is a fascinating film, and Chastains wonderful performance has something in it of the tragic sense of life.
Guardian
3.0
I can well believe that, but for me the most sinister depiction of torture is non depiction.Many Hollywood movies about the war on terror have managed ..
Guardian
5.0
Telling a nearly three hour story with an ending everyone knows, Bigelow and Boal have managed to craft one of the most intense and intellectually cha ..
Guardian
3.5
I found the over long docudrama neither enlightening nor entertaining.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.4
Thus, how you respond to the film will rest largely on what politics you bring to the screen.
Q Network
1.0
It is her second celebration of American determination and persistence in the war on terror.
Daily Mail
4.5
A thoughtful and very cold action thriller that paints the raid on Osama Bin Laden as a trouble gray zone filled with varying degrees of doubts and fe ..
Cinema Crazed
5.0
What I havent said until now is that Zero Dark Thirty is a sweeping and magnificent work of cinematic craft, by far the best film of Bigelows career.
Salon
4.0
But, movie industry metaphors aside, Zero Dark Thirty is a gripping, authentic feeling account of the dark side of the war on terror.
Flim List
4.0
Its ambitious to cover a decade of such a complex manhunt, but the screenplay manages to gives us a sense of the ups and downs, the mistakes and good ..
2.0
But its the theme that earns stature and attention, not the movie.
Observer
4.5
But back to that torture.How thoughtful people throughout the moviegoing world will respond to this film will probably be just as informed by how the ..
Movies
4.5
Zero Dark Thirty is truly one of the best films of 2012.In my list, it is the best.
Flim Threet
2.0
Is Kathryn Bigelow the new Leni Riefenstahl.Has Bigelow gone over to the dark side and made a great film depicting CIA torture as a useful tool in the ..
Boston Herald
5.0
You could say good old fashioned boots on the ground tradecraft and bribery tricks of the Cold War trade were more effective.
Express
5.0
This is an odd thing for a movie, even a fact based movie, to do to its protagonist.It is also the honest thing.
Chicago Tribune
3.0
This might anger some people, but it feels authentic; these people have a job to do, and sometimes it involves getting your hands dirty.
Bullz-Eye
4.0
Is it a whistle blowing exercise disguised as a procedural thriller
The Irish Times
4.0
But its Jessica Chastain who anchors the film and carries it home for us.
Blogs Indie Wire
4.0
The Nun may tie into The Conjuring in more ways than you expect: We filmed a few things Movie News The Nun stars the sister of The Conjurings lead act ..
Total Film
4.0
Its a promise fulfilled with the now all too familiar litany of brutal techniques: beatings, waterboarding, stress positions, extremes of cold and dar ..
The Atlantic
2.5
Bigelow isnt trying to entertain the audience, but Im not sure what she wants us to take from the film as the end credits start.
Lyles Movie Files
4.5
The careful orchestration of details turns Zero Dark Thirty into a thriller by way of a New Yorker essay.
Hollywood
4.0
Watching this movie, you know she deserves the Oscar: sorry, Jennifer Lawrence.
Standard
2.0
Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach.
Tony Medley
2.0
The films greatest achievement is that it doesnt glorify its subject.
Coles Mithey
5.0
Maya is unsentimentally structured, doesnt come with acres of backstory and isnt an easy person to read.
Movie Freak
3.0
While Zero Dark Thirty may offer political and moral arguing points aplenty, as well as vicarious thrills,as a film its simply too much of a passable ..
Detroit News
3.8
The impressive array of actors really delivers on Boals script as they come in and out of the story.
3.1
Should this story be entertainment.And if it isnt entertainment, what is it
Groucho Reviews
3.0
It has an integrity to it that is bracing and adult, and it manages to deliver a major visceral experience without ever once bending to Hollywood conv ..
Hit Fix
5.0
This is waterboarding, and it leaves the prisoner gasping like a dying fish.
Cnn
5.0
The most obvious level Zero Dark Thirty works on is as a real life revenge tale.
Aisle Seat
4.4
a lot of colors, and angles, and is guaranteed to be remembered come awards time. Mayas a real character, all right.
Nj
4.5
Like that movie, Zero Dark Thirty presents us with a slice of reality that remains remote for most of us.It reminds us that in our consumer oriented, ..
Movie Habit
2.0
Viewers looking for a propagandistic take will be disappointed, but even those who doubt the overall framework and existence of the so called War on T ..
Oregon Live
4.5
...a nail biting thriller of the first order, but also a confronting gut wrencher which though never driven by ideology or politics inevitably pulls t ..
Film Ink
3.8
That kind of ambition should be applauded, even if the movie as a whole never quite clears the very high bar it sets for itself.
Movies Tv Guide
5.0
This is largely an ensemble piece, but theres no question that Chastain is the standout.
Maki At The Movies
4.5
It isnt enough to detract from a superbly edge of your seat experience, however, perfectly riddled with unshielded and realistic violence, impartial e ..
4.0
Jostling for UK box office attention this week alongside Steven Spielbergs awards magnet Lincoln (2012), Kathryn Bigelows divisive drama Zero Dark Thi ..
Cine Vue
4.0
And against all the odds, Kathryn Bigelows powerful story of the hunt is a taut and searing action thriller that keeps you gripped.
Mirror
5.0
Its a scene of apparent calm that quickly shifts, underlining how brilliant Chastain is in this role a poignant emotional coda to an absolutely extrao ..
Digital Spy
2.0
We know the ending, yet remain mesmerized by familiar details, filmed with a harrowing sense of urgency. Its as close to being in the White House situ ..
Tamp A Bay
4.4
After years of interrogating prisoners, deciphering lies, surviving bombs and avoiding bullets, Maya, the CIA agent played by the excellent Jessica Ch ..
Kansas City
4.4
Thatll happen in a movie this engaging and consistently riveting.
Red Eye Chicago
5.0
Unlike too many films these days, Zero Dark Thirty dares to embrace complexity. And that makes it not just state of the art entertainment, but a great ..
Stl Today
4.5
The harsh torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty are used to show how far the characters, and in some ways the country was willing to go to bring this one ..
Stl Today
3.0
Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, Oscar winners for The Hurt Locker, had worked extensively on creating a film about that futile search w ..
Cleve Land
4.5
This we are the law mentality isnt machismo, its simply professionalism.
Screen Crush
4.0
We get all imaginable views of the witchy pentacle that is covert US military politics.
Ft
3.8
Taking its time before approaching the expected finale, if the meticulously researched nighttime showdown at Osamas hideouta compound actually sitting ..
Dustin Put Man
4.0
Blistering writing, directing and acting hold us firmly in our seats as this procedural drama snakes its way to a riveting action finale.
Contact Music
4.6
As entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty is a great accomplishment a somber, black winged benediction for what we might count as a lost decade.
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
With its brilliant high tech treatment of the subject and the classified nature of the disclosures, Zero Dark Thirty almost feels like a documentary.
Film Racket
4.4
...much of Zero Dark Thirty works to subvert the gender expectations we might have as an audience.
Larsen On Film
4.0
Its a companion piece that raises the stakes while gripping you in an unbreakable hold.
Hollywood And Fine
4.0
And the cute, retro styling looks like its come straight out of the 1970s.
The Sun
4.5
The greatest manhunt in modern history plays catalyst to a gripping tale of obsession both dark and dangerous in the engrossing, character rich and sy ..
Matts Movie Reviews
5.0
But Zero Dark Thirty understands it will never truly be done and still carries a weight and burden long beyond the moment of one mans death.
The Filmy Ap
3.0
It provides a much needed catharsis for what was done to nearly 3,000 innocent Americans at the behest of a mass murdering religious zealot.
Patriot Ledger
3.8
The leaps forward in time leave crucial details aside, and the final (excellently done) raid is good enough to make you wish it were the whole film.
Big Picture Big Sound
4.4
It very likely says quite a bit about Kathryn Bigelows Zero Dark Thirty that the CIA has felt compelled to publicly disparage the films accuracy.
3.0
We all know this story ends but Zero Dark Thirtys finale is still gripping and action packed.
The Film Pie
4.4
Jessica Chastain plays a member of an elite team of spies and military operatives stationed in a covert base overseas, including Christopher Stanley ( ..
Js Online
4.5
Zero Dark Thirty is a clinical, apolitical look at ten years of dogged determination. It is a thoughtful exploration of the elaborate puzzle put toget ..
Movie Web
3.0
When it comes to establishing and maintaining tension, there wasnt a better American genre picture released this year. Refrain from viewing it as hist ..
Sandiego Reader
5.0
The most rivetingly detailed examination of how bureaucracy, ego, misinformation, passion, and pure evil intertwined in this war on terror.
Hollywood Chicago
3.0
Embellishments are cinematic.In Ben Afflecks recent (and fantastic) Argo, the entire climax was gussied up to a ridiculous level, but it made the true ..
Cinemix Tape
4.5
Boals script is exceedingly well balanced as far as action, dialogue, details and emotion are concerned.
Shockya
4.5
The climactic 35 minutes is a nail biting, edge of the seat ride, culminating in an intensely emotional scene.
Sbs
5.0
This is the years most important film.It may very well also be its best.
Flavor Wire
4.5
Its 157 minutes long, and certainly feels that long, but its unwaveringly worth the sit.
What Culture
5.0
Zero Dark Thirty is always aware of the moral and political complexities of war, but what makes it a great work of cinema is its awareness of the huma ..
The Skinny
5.0
What works: It is a searing and riveting film, but one that doesnt take the easy way out and give short shrift to the complex emotions at play.
No La
4.0
Elsewhere, Bigelows storytelling style feels more concerned with detail and accuracy than thrills and spills.
Metro
4.4
It is already doing what great movies dostarting conversation.Nothing, not even the raid on the compound, is staged like a typical Hollywood film.
Scene Stealers
4.0
Its the job of effective cinema to ask questions; your conscience, if the filmmakers minded not to manipulate you too forcefully, provides the answers ..
The Ooh Tray
5.0
What is undisputed is that Bigelow has made a terrifically gripping, provocative film and that Chastain gives an outstanding, Oscar worthy performance ..
What So
5.0
Zero Dark Thirty, Katherine Bigelows terrific new terror war thriller, achieves something rare in a Hollywood movie: It presents a hot button subjectt ..
reason
4.5
A superb political thriller, anchored by outstanding work from Jessica Chastain. In a year that featured some outstanding films with political themes, ..
Bowling Green Daily News
5.0
Anyone upset that torture was employed in the first place should take it up with the torturers, not the artists forcing us to confront our cruel past. ..
Streaming Quickflix
5.0
The title of Kathryn Bigelows Zero Dark Thirty refers, in military jargon, to the precise time12:30 a.m, in the dark of a Pakistani nightwhen Navy SEA ..
Wsj
4.4
The picture acknowledges the very real presence of torture on the post 9/11 landscape had the filmmakers ignored the subject, the movie would be littl ..
Clclt
3.8
While Zero Dark Thirty is a decent telling of these events, Im forced to reach the same conclusion that I did with The Hurt Locker. Its a good film ov ..
3.0
Her unrelenting commitment often is thankless.The first two hours of the film go at a steady pace.
Tony Mack
3.0
That serves the film well, and it gives a strong, somber tone to the film.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.0
Zero Dark Thirty has nary a wasted scene and very little in the way of respite from the intensity and power of its story and execution.
From The Balcony
5.0
Bigelow doesnt need narrative clarity to generate terrific suspense.
Ny Mag
4.0
Its not a showy performance, but it is a very good one, and without it the film would have struggled to prevent itself falling into glossy faux docume ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
4.5
Perched between the serene classicism of old Hollywood and the jittery crazy cam of the Bourne era, Bigelows style is terse and assured.
Entertainment Time
4.5
Its a superb film and one worthy of the many plaudits it has received.
Trespass Mag
5.0
It may be fictionalised but it brilliantly sets an uneasy tone for the drama that is about to unfold.What you take from it politically is up to you.Bi ..
Daily Star
4.5
This story isnt being told from the safety of Langley in the United States.
5.0
And, like The Hurt Locker, its a fascinating character study as well.
Qc Times
5.0
Densely detailed, superbly shot and acted, illuminating and thrilling, it is the best film of 2012.
Boston Phoenix
2.0
Unfolding like a timetable of harrowing events during this time, the movie might not elicit much empathy but it does successfully manage to push audie ..
Reel Talk Online
3.0
What most people dont know is exactly how the compound was found, how long it took and how it was determined to be the residence of Bin Laden.
Assignment X
3.8
No, Zero Dark Thirty isnt promoting torture as a means to an end, hawkeyes.
Spectrum Culture
5.0
The result is a powerfully engaging dramatic work that is easily Bigelows most accomplished directorial effort.
Graffiti With Punctuation
5.0
It stands tall as terrific and engrossing entertainment, a suspenseful ride that never slacks and strong ensemble work that places this film among the ..
Toledo Blade
4.5
Stripped of the usual gung ho aspects of most war movies or revenge melodramas, the film is a calm, concentrated, densely detailed description of a ma ..
Honey Cutts Hollywood
3.0
Its a mystery, a thriller and finally a stunningly photographed military raid.
Movie Chambers
3.0
It would also be flag wavingly sweet revenge for a hitherto impotent superpower.
Sky
4.5
In a strong field of Best Picture nominees, Zero Dark Thirty has a decent chance to emerge the winner.
Kaplan Vs Kaplan
2.0
The pity and lunacy of war become clear; its the finest part of a movie that sprawls terribly.
Metro Active
2.0
As grueling as parts of it are, though, you may not love it. You may not even like it. But, regardless of your politics, youre all but guaranteed to a ..
Review Journal
4.4
This is crackerjack filmmaking, at once thrilling and deeply felt, a gripping CIA procedural that shows us what great movies are all about.
The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
5.0
It is also the gripping and minimalist opening of Zero Dark Thirty.These early moments set the stage for the rest of this tightly plotted, relentlessl ..
Free Beacon
5.0
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Richard Roeper
5.0
But what you ultimately take away from this movie is that it is not a commercialized propoganda piece; its simply one of the most honest, intense and ..
Schmoes Know
1.5
Bigelow and her screenwriter Mark Boal from the idea that doubt is dynamic, while moral certainty is just another kind of stasis.
Film.com
3.8
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Produced by Mark Boal, Bigelow & Megan Ellison Written by Boal Released by Columbia Pictures USA.
Film Forward
5.0
The suspense comes not from how we ultimately bring down bin Laden, but how Maya and what remains of Americas fraying do gooder conscience fares in th ..
Ut Sandiego
2.0
Bigelow has hamstrung herself by not committing to a viewpoint. This is a by the numbers, cold, emotionally inert, just the facts procedural drama tha ..
Eclipse Magazine
4.5
To epitomise just how neutral a piece of filmmaking this is, Bigelow doesnt even present the US in a necessarily positive way.
Hey U Guys
5.0
As disturbing as it often is to watch, its so rife with sheer cinematic material that its likely to reward multiple viewings.
MSN Movies
4.0
Is a very intense dramatic thriller that can be classified as one of the best of its genre.
4.3
This is a great movie.While the pacing and plotting could have used some ironing here and there, Bigelow keeps the intricate plot of a very in depth s ..
Flixist
4.5
But Zero Dark Thirty is less interested in movie indulgences than its predecessor, which may be why its coolness makes it an easier effort to admire t ..
Movie Line
3.5
Zero Dark Thirty is impressive filmmaking that is gripping from start to finish.
Cinema Autopsy
3.0
Without the personalities or charisma, Zero Dark Thirty comes off as interesting as opposed to enjoyable, and intriguing as opposed to entertaining, a ..
Standard Net Au
5.0
This is what a great movie does; it doesnt just sit in the theater, entertaining you briefly before you move on to something else.
Bad Ass Digest
4.0
A restrained, world weary impression of the various American attempts (from torture, interrogation, surveillance, and the final hi tech marine raid) t ..
Patrick Nabarro
4.5
Chastain manages the seemingly impossible feat of looking spent and dejected but still photogenic.
Kc Active
4.0
There is no Team America style, flag waving bravado behind this story it is quite the opposite.
The Mercury
2.0
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Stardem
4.0
True, the movie is exciting: Bigelow is one of the worlds greatest directors and theres always something morally dodgy about cruel history being turne ..
Vogue
5.0
Zero Dark Thirty is an emotional thrill ride; a film that shows you what it wants you to see and lets you decide your moral stance.
Alternative Lens
2.5
Bigelow has reunited with Boal but stuck herself again with a lifeless screenplay and a lead actress to go with it.
The Nation
1.5
The state inures the people to violence and tolerates enough dissent to convince most that barbarism doesnt disqualify their nation from being on the ..
The Nation
4.0
Bigelows direction keeps going from strength to strength tightening the tension while letting the story move at a rapid pace to a heart pounding concl ..
The Popcorn Junkie
4.0
Riefenstahls movies are driven by a twisted ideology, Bigelows film is just narrow minded and superficial.And it must be said that Riefenstahls films, ..
Bangkok Post
3.0
Bigelows great achievement is stripping down the action from the exaggerated theatrics in movies and television shows so the missions feel no less exc ..
Reel Times: Reflections on ..
0.5
No, depiction is not endorsement, as though anyone with a brain would ever suggest that it was.
World Socialist Web Site
2.0
When you hear boots marching up your stairs, that guy who whispers Osama, Osama Its not because you need to sign for a UPS package!
Movie Juice
4.5
It doesnt hurt that anyone with first hand knowledge died more than 75 years ago, I guess.
Blogs Houston Press
4.0
Special By By Sarah Gopaul Jan 12, 2013 in Entertainment Oscar nominated Zero Dark Thirty chronicles a select number of events over 10 years that lead ..
Digital Journal
5.0
Like Argo, Zero Dark Thirty is a film where you know exactly how its going to end, and it doesnt make a lick of difference. I was completely riveted e ..
Host Madison
2.0
Dont mess with the chicks. Osama bin Laden did, and look what happened to him.
Mania.com
4.5
carries a sweetness and retained humanity that strikes the viewer, and breaks our hearts even as we flinch.
4.0
Zero Dark Thirty is a taut, sometimes menacing thriller, but with an almost three hour runtime, it is a slow burning movie.
Fox News
4.0
The second is that they simply believed it made for a better story that a saga of dogged detective work wouldnt have proved dramatic enough and someho ..
7 Dvt
4.5
The movie stays clear of jingoistic grandstanding or chest beating. But the people whove made it have every reason to crow; this is by a mile one of t ..
Play Boy
4.4
Chastains Maya is a red tressed Pre Raphaelite madonna with the cleft chin and chiseled features of an action hero.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis ..
3.0
Rotten Tomatoes notes that I agree with Tomatometer critics 80 percent of the time, but this is one of those times I have to part ways with them.
Movie Metropolis
4.0
It asks its audience: When does the risk of doing something outweigh the risk not doing anything What are the costs of revenge Where will the war on t ..
American Profile
4.0
What emerges is a portrait of modern warfare as an elaborate technocracy.
Mubi
4.0
*** Everybody likes cake, says peppy girl agent Jennifer Ehle, the kind of personality who likes to dish sex over cocktails at hotel bars Thank You Fo ..
Mubi
5.0
There arent a lot of unnecessary back stories.Its just great storytelling.
The Reel Deal
3.1
This is a movie that claims to be faithfully based on facts, but the filmmakers cant have it both ways.
Rss Feeds Usa Today
4.4
Zero Dark Thirty is a model of artistic restraint, a film letting fantastic history trump the need to score partisan points.
Big Hollywood
3.8
Two movies in one, and one of those movies is the really good one, if you stick around long enough to see it.
2.0
Swift, smart, relentless, Zero Dark Thirty compresses a decade of high stakes procedural into 157 minutes of pure momentum.
Dallas News
5.0
(Jessica) Chastains powerful performance, for which she deserves a best actress Academy Award, drives the film. She has no private life, no friends. H ..
Jc Online
5.0
This is as fine a piece of filmmaking as you will see. While many will prefer other types of films, this film hits to all fields in a way that others ..
Movie City News
2.0
Despite knowing how the attack ends, the tight confines of the mission and the danger lurking behind every closed door make for a breathless cinematic ..
Events Austin 360
4.5
In other filmmakers hands, you could see this as being a gung ho right wing revenge flick, or perhaps a Bourne style action film.
Un Cut
5.0
The story Bigelow and Boal tell is an ugly one, brutal, disconnected, horribly human, but what makes the film such an exceptional piece of work is the ..
Eugene Weekly
5.0
But Zero Dark Thirty plays out more like a thriller, and the road to bin Laden is littered like a minefield.
Access Hollywood
4.4
Who could imagine that the CIA in this modern era would be defined by a couple of badass women, Homelands Carrie Matheson, and in this film, Jessica C ..
Atlantic City Weekly
2.0
But Bigelow, skilled and taut throughout, flexes her action scene muscles in the grand finale in Abbottabad.
Deads
5.0
Its cinema as an extension of long form journalism, an intriguing and exciting story even though we know exactly how its going to end.
Technology Tell
4.0
In that, as well as in creating good entertainment, Kathryn Bigalow succeeds very well.This is one of the best movies of the year.
Patheos
3.1
Rest easy, America.We might be under attack from anti Western fundamentalists whose lack of interest in human life even their own means they cant be r ..
4.4
An edge of your seat ride through recent history featuring a great performance at its center.
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) ..
3.0
A darkly gripping, tunnel visioned procedural a dirge wrapped in grey morality, and served up with a pulse quickening side dish of siege pay off.
Shared Darkness
2.0
Unsettling and unforgettable...challenges the justifications of wars ugly atrocities, without resorting to jingoistic platitudes.
Spectrum (St. George, Utah ..
4.5
Lean, muscular, and shorn of sentimentality, Zero Dark Thirty is consistently absorbing.
ScreenAnarchy
4.5
Bigelow and Boal are rare filmmakers in that they dont underestimate the intelligence of their audience. In the case of this extraordinary docudrama, ..
4.0
A film of infectious urgency, questionable accuracy, murky morality and undeniable emotional and intellectual power
Sound Cloud
4.0
Fresh from her win at the Academy Awards a few years ago, Kathryn Bigelow teamed up again with Mark Boal to produce Zero Dark Thirty, chronicling a de ..
4.5
Which is to say: focused, fallible, and capable of both amazing heroism and gut churning brutality.
Ticket Sarasota
5.0
Zero Dark Thirty is a magnificent movie, if we ignore the moral ambiguities. But can we
America Magazine
5.0
Agent Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love waterboarding!
Aalbc It
5.0
Flaherty and his actors deliver a drama of survival in a severe and unforgiving environment, and though it may seem naive by modern standards it remai ..
Parallax View
3.0
The raid itself is first class filmmaking, from the eerily quiet stealth helicopters low flying through mountain passes to the tense room by room sear ..
Bloom Berg
4.7
Zero Dark Thirty sneaks up on you, hits the mark and then dares to ask whether it was worth it.
Ask Men
4.5
Share on Twitter Tweet Share on Facebook Share Jessica Chastain in Kathryn BigelowsZero Dark Thirty. | COLUMBIA PICTURES Lately, Kathryn Bigelow has s ..
Gay City News
2.0
It even makes the movie dull at times, like a dry and talky procedural.The lady next to me was snoring loudly.
Filmdrunk Uproxx
3.0
...even if this is a completely fictional account, it seems true and our need to fill in the gaps will cause what I think will be a massive audience t ..
Crunch On This
5.0
You know the outcome, but are you ready for the banal bloodstain, the suddenness, the disquieting feeling of an itch that cant be scratched
Time Out Chicago
2.5
I was pretty upset that Bigelow got snubbed by the Academy.... until I actually SAW the film. It felt like a really good TV movie, but Jessica Chastai ..
Film Geek Central
4.0
Bigelows latest proves a rewarding piece of filmmaking, one that, in its best moments at least, is as gripping and as troubling as anything the direct ..
Moviedex
4.0
Following on from the great acclaim of The Hurt Locker, Bigalows shaky cam and tough talking characters once again take us to the dark side of modern ..
UTV
5.0
It is also one of the very best films of the year: a riveting spy procedural, crafted with journalistic rigor and great visual confidence.
France 24
3.0
While its executed with the same level of meticulous precision as the raid itself, you cant help but wonder if Bigelow could have compressed things ju ..
5.0
Each frame radiates genuineness (despite Chastains clumsy attempts at badassery) and dares you to question its authenticity.The movies cold bloodednes ..
In These Times
1.5
he mix of technical mastery and conscious hollowness that left such a deep impression on me.
Review Film Review
5.0
Its a movie made with the same coolly fanatical attention to craft the lead character displays in her work.
Feeds Boston
4.4
Where the finale of Argo has largely been fabricated to drive up suspense, the finale of Zero Dark Thirty is probably the films most accurate segment ..
Planit North West
4.0
You cant deny that what Zero Dark Thirty sets out to do, it does excellently.
4.0
It takes the better part of three hours to tell this story, and not a minute of it seems wasted.
Canada
3.8
Purely as cinematic exercise, Zero Dark Thirty is an exhilarating piece of work. But, beyond its for the times subject matter, the work does not linge ..
5.0
direction... delivers an intensity rarely seen in todays cinema and as the dramatisation plays out to its emotional and thrilling climax, you cannot h ..
5.0
Taking on more of a documentary feel than the reverent re enactment flavor of, say, Lincoln, Kathryn Bigelows film harnesses the plausibly messy bruta ..
Because I Told You So
5.0
One of the most innovative and best made films of the past year. Every now and then, even Dick Cheney gets to like a great movie.
4.0
But even good stories dont tell themselves, especially not if they aim to be great.Watching her wriggle free from the story of a lifetimes every forma ..
Polit
2.0
That is, for the purposes of enjoying a movie that hasnt actively repulsed you from the start and caused you to opt out and start mocking it, you alig ..
Ns Fw Corp
4.4
As Bigelow has said, depiction is not endorsement, and ZDT shows the cost to the soul of fighting terrorism.
2.5
Bigelows extensive staging of the May 1, 2011, raid is a prime example of virtuoso action filmmaking.
Green Bay Press Gazette
5.0
The underlying theme, and the one most troubling, is that of people on both sides who are neither sadists nor psychopaths finding themselves doing thi ..
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