A House of Dynamite

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (R)

★★★

Kathryn Bigelow’s first movie in eight years “takes the unthinkable and puts it right in front of us,” said in Time . A nuclear missile fired by an unknown overseas source has been spotted headed toward Chicago, and America’s crisis response team, including the president, has 18 minutes to attempt a defense and decide whether an instant counterstrike is worth risking a potentially apocalyptic escalation. “A real-life horror movie,” A House of Dynamite “lays bare all sorts of global realities we don’t want to think about,” and watching it was “one of the most stressful viewing experiences I’ve had in years.”

The movie is playing in theaters for two weeks before it moves to Netflix on Oct. 24, and its “most unusual” formal c

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