Bigelow’s muscular film overcomes a very info-dense first half with an extremely riveting and tense second half, chronicling the decades-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
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Hurt Locker, The (2008)
A tense, suspense-driven war thriller centering on a bomb squad that thrives on unpredictability, even though its shaky-cam excesses and lack of a traditional narrative may wear thin at more than two hours.
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Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Cruise remains committed as ever as Hollywood’s death-defying action star par excellence, but this is such a slog and bogged down by the need to justify the knotty, plotty ideas of the earlier movie.
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Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Cimino’s much-derided, massive financial failure of a film at the time can be appreciated today as a monumental piece of work—an ambitious, indulgent and unorthodox American Western, loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
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Hollywoodgate (2023)
Powerful, insightful, frightening and surprisingly amusing, this documentary gives us unprecedented access into the inner workings of the Taliban as they returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
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Sinners (2025)
Things go dreadfully south during a wild night in a Louisiana juke joint in Coogler’s most original work yet, marked by patient setups, foreshadowing, and playful blending of genres in this fervent, intoxicating music-horror.
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Queer (2024)
Guadagnino’s intoxicating adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novella about the sensual connection between two men exudes profound feelings that coalesce and ache the body, mind and soul, boasting what could be a career-best performance by Daniel Craig.
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Slacker (1990)
Linklater’s breakthrough indie has the kind of anarchic energy that still feels relevant today, capturing America at the crossroads of stagnation and progress, as his camera roams from one character to another like a stream of consciousness.
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Black Bag (2025)
Tightly structured, verbose and eschewing high-stakes action, Soderbergh’s deceptively genial chess game of a spy thriller conflates the professional and the personal as one half of a married couple working for the same intelligence agency is suspected of being treasonous.
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Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Aster reinvents his wheel of perverse creativity with this epic three-hour odyssey as a man (Joaquin Phoenix in a fantastic performance) suffering from chronic anxiety and the inability to take responsibility embarks on a Freudian journey of self-confrontation.
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