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The Hurt Locker

During the Iraq War, a new U.S. Army Sergeant EOD team leader recently assigned to an army bomb squad on its concluding rotation is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick and reckless way of handling his work.
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The New Yorker by David Denby

A small classic of tension, bravery, and fear, which will be studied twenty years from now when people want to understand something of what happened to American soldiers in Iraq. If there are moviegoers who are exhausted by the current fashion for relentless fantasy violence, this is the convincingly blunt and forceful movie for them.
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New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

The Hurt Locker might be the first Iraq-set film to break through to a mass audience because it doesn't lead with the paralysis of the guilt-ridden Yank. The horror is there, but under the rush.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young

Tensely action-packed and muscularly directed by Kathryn Bigelow, this tale of an elite U.S. army bomb disposal unit in Baghdad is a familiar story in new clothes, targeted at the young male demographic.
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Variety by Derek Elley

Boal's script stirs a little of everything into the pot, which boils down into seven setpieces divided by brief intervals of camaraderie/conflict among the three protags.
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli

This is a tense, well-crafted motion picture that keeps viewers on edge. It's an exhausting 130 minutes; many viewers will leave the theater feeling drained.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey

There's something about this story, and this war, that brings out the stripped-down conceptual artist in her (Bigelow): Against blank canvases of desert sand and rubble, explosive wires are linked to nerve ends, and everything that matters depends on the twitch of a muscle or a finger on a button.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

The result is an intense, action-driven war pic, a muscular, efficient standout that simultaneously conveys the feeling of combat from within as well as what it looks like on the ground.
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Time by Richard Corliss

A near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. Through sturdy imagery and violent action, it says that even Hell needs heroes.
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Village Voice by Scott Foundas

A full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you like a virus, puts your nerves in a blender, and twists your guts into a Gordian knot.

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Munich

Steven Spielberg
2005 France, Canada, USA

Munich

  • ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
  • France, Canada, USA • 2005
  • Director Steven Spielberg
  • Cast Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer
  • Genre Drama, Action, History, Thriller
  • Available on Cinemax Amazon Channel, iTunes, FandangoNOW, Redbox, YouTube, Microsoft Movies & TV, Cinemax, DIRECTV, VUDU, Amazon, AMC, Google Play

The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics.

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