Warning: This post contains spoilers for A House of Dynamite .

If the American government had less than 20 minutes to decide the fate of humanity in the wake of an unattributed nuclear missile being fired at the U.S., what would they choose to do?

This question supplies the premise of A House of Dynamite , a new military-industrial thriller from The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow now streaming on Netflix, which been lauded by critics since its Venice Film Festival premiere. Almost the entirety of the nearly two-hour film unfolds over the course of that brief impact window, with the same roughly 18-minute interval playing out on screen three times over from the perspectives of different military and political officials.

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