From the late 1980s to the turn of the millennium, Kathryn Bigelow was making exhilarating, borderline-trashy cult genre flicks like Near Dark , Blue Steel , Strange Days and Point Break . Later, she was granted prestige via her war-zone thrillers The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty , the former of which made her the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. But she’s been somewhat AWOL since the tepid response to her 2017 rogue-police drama Detroit , only directing a handful of short films over the past eight years.

What a relief, then, to report that A House Of Dynamite feels like a real return to form; a genuinely electrifying race-against-the-clock thriller that’s as frightening as it is gripping. This isn’t the first time Bigelow has tackled the ex

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