ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)

Kathryn Bigelow’s procedural account of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden was accused of endorsing torture before most people had seen it, and of being CIA propaganda before the credits rolled. Zero Dark Thirty is less a thriller than a moral endurance test – a cold, meticulous record of what a nation is willing to do in the dark, and what it tells itself in the morning.   

With introduction by leading scholar.  

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, US, 2012, 157 min, M  
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, James Gandolfini 

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