A House of Dynamite was the best and most thought-provoking movie of the 2025 Venice Film Festival, if not the whole year.

This Netflix political thriller boasts an impressive ensemble cast, expertise in its alarming subject matter and the gold-standard quality that comes from director Kathryn Bigelow at the helm.

It’s also uncomfortably realistic and tense in its delivery of the message that nuclear war is far closer at every second than most of the world’s population really understands.

Starring the likes of Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris, Jason Clarke, The Night Agent’s breakout star Gabriel Basso and Anthony Ramos, this engrossing film dives into the scramble in real-time after a single unattributed missile is launched at the US.

Governmental and military teams, alongsi

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